Lord Robert Skidelsky on A Keynesian Response to the Crisis

In his presentation to the IIEA Lord Skidelsky drew on his extensive knowledge of and output on Keynes, including his three-volume biography of John Maynard Keynes, which is widely considered the definitive work on Keynes, and his 2009 book ‘Keynes: The Return of the Master’, to provide an argument for a Keynesian response to the current economic crisis.

About the Speaker:

Lord Robert Skidelsky is a leading public intellectual in Britain. He is an economic historian, Emeritus Professor at the University of Warwick, a syndicated columnist and a cross-bench member of the House of Lords. He has written widely and earlier this year he published ‘How Much is Enough?: Money and the Good Life’ with Edward Skidelsky.