Robert Skidelsky
Robert Skidelsky Robert Skidelsky, a member of the British House of Lords, is Professor Emeritus of Political Economy at Warwick University.
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Europe’s Surplus of Stagnation
While the rest of the world recovers from the Great Recession of 2008-2009, Europe is stagnating. Eurozone growth is expected to be 1.7% next year. What can be done about it? -
Post-Crash Economics
In last month’s European Parliament election, euroskeptic and extremist parties won 25% of the popular vote, with the biggest gains chalked up in France, the United Kingdom, and Greece. These results were widely, and correctly, interpreted as showing the degree of disconnect between an arrogant European elite and ordinary citizens. -
Free Trade and Costly Love
The World Trade Organization’s ministerial conference in Bali in December produced a modest package of encouragements to global trade. More broadly, the WTO’s multilateral approach has shown its worth by preventing a massive increase in trade barriers, unlike in 1929-1930, when protectionism helped deepen and broaden the Great Depression. But the main question – whether globalization is a good thing, and for whom – remains unanswered. -
Four Fallacies of the Second Great Depression
The period since 2008 has produced a plentiful crop of recycled economic fallacies, mostly falling from the lips of political leaders. Here are my four favorites.
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Mauldin’s "Endgame" teaches politicians the basics, but are they listening?
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Is the UK seeing a pre-election stimulus rather than more austerity?
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Cost overruns and mismanagement threaten world's best hope for fusion power
By Anthony Harrington, September 24, 2014
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Hi Raytzz
I agree that the situation looks grim for the Russian economy right
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Business and investing in the Russian economy has just been derailed.
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Great article indeed!
Recent IMF study has found that inequality is damaging
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The federally-run home loan buyer, Fannie Mae, said that it had profits of $5.1
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