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Money Talks: Professor Lord Robert Skidelsky, biographer of John Maynard Keynes

In this episode, Liam talks to Professor Lord Robert Skidelsky, Biographer of John Maynard Keynes – the most influential economist of the 20th century. In this wide-ranging interview, Skidelsky discusses how he helped David Owen to set up the SDP in the early 1980s, how economic policymaking works and how he developed from a historian into an economist. “Britain’s history was forged outside Europe, not within Europe,” Lord Skidelsky remarks, reflecting on the...

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The Human Condition in the Age of Machines | Prof. Robert Skidelsky | Joan Muysken Lecture

In the past, humans used machines, but did not live in a machine age. In other words, machines did not determine their conditions of life. These conditions barely changed over thousands of years. Today, we depend on machines for the way we work, the way we think, and the way we live. The machine age has come in a rush. It raises three questions. How and why has it come about? What has been its effect on the human condition? And what influence, if any, do we have on the further ‘march...

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The Human Condition in the Age of Machines | Prof. Robert Skidelsky | Joan Muysken Lecture

In the past, humans used machines, but did not live in a machine age. In other words, machines did not determine their conditions of life. These conditions barely changed over thousands of years. Today, we depend on machines for the way we work, the way we think, and the way we live. The machine age has come in a rush. It raises three questions. How and why has it come about? What has been its effect on the human condition? And what influence, if any, do we have on the further ‘march...

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The Return of the State | Robert Skidelsky

PEF Council member Robert Skidlesky discusses the points in his chapter: * Return the state to its primary position in shaping the economy * Ensure that fiscal space is not dictated by international bond markets * Increase the government's share of investment in the economy * Choose the technology that we want.

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The Life of John Maynard Keynes | Biographer Lord Robert Skidelsky

Keynes' biographer Lord Robert Skidelsky talks about JMK's interesting social life, and shares anecdotes which few of us know. YSI is an initiative of the Institute for New Economic Thinking Twitter: https://twitter.com/ysi_commons Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ysicommunity/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/YoungScholarsInitiative Blog: https://www.economicquestions.org/

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It’s the Economy with Joseph Stiglitz, Robert Skidelsky and Mary Kaldor

Robert Skidelsky, eminent biographer of British economist John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946), whose ideas continue to reverberate and influence government policies across the world, and Joseph Stiglitz, Nobel Prize-winning American economist, debate what Keynes might propose in the current climate of international economic turmoil. Can they interpret for our times Keynes’s belief that the political problem of humankind is to combine three things: “economic efficiency, social justice...

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