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Robert Skidelsky

Born

in Harbin, Manchukuo, China

April 25, 1939

Died

April 15, 2026

Website

http://www.skidelskyr.com/

Genre

Biography, History, Politics

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Robert Skidelsky was a British economic historian, author, crossbench life peer in the House of Lords, and Emeritus Professor of Political Economy at the University of Warwick. His three volume biography of the economist John Maynard Keynes (1983, 1992, 2000) received numerous prizes, including the Lionel Gelber Prize for International Relations and the Council on Foreign Relations Prize for International Relations.

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How Economics Survived the Economic Crisis

The tenth anniversary of the start of the Great Recession was the occasion for an elegant essay by the Nobel laureate economist Paul Krugman, who noted how little the debate about the causes and consequences of the crisis have changed over the last decade. Whereas the Great Depression of the 1930s produced Keynesian economics, and the stagflation of the 1970s produced Milton Friedman’s monetarism, Read more of this blog post »

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	How Much Is Enough? Money and the Good Life by Robert Skidelsky, Edward Skidelsky 3.55 avg rating — 1,762 ratings — published 2012 — 28 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Keynes: The Return of the Master 3.78 avg rating — 1,097 ratings — published 2009 — 37 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	John Maynard Keynes: 1883-1946: Economist, Philosopher, Statesman 4.21 avg rating — 274 ratings — published 2003 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Money and Government: Unsettled Issues in Macroeconomics 4.18 avg rating — 269 ratings — published 2018 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	What’s Wrong with Economics? A Primer for the Perplexed 4.09 avg rating — 218 ratings — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Keynes: A Very Short Introduction 3.45 avg rating — 193 ratings — published 2010 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	John Maynard Keynes, Vol. 1: Hopes Betrayed, 1883-1920 4.35 avg rating — 134 ratings — published 1983 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	John Maynard Keynes: Volume 2: The Economist as Savior, 1920-1937 4.29 avg rating — 80 ratings — published 1992 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	John Maynard Keynes: Fighting for Freedom, 1937-1946 4.32 avg rating — 65 ratings — published 2001 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Keynes for Our Times 4.09 avg rating — 37 ratings — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“If only one person were perfectly informed there could never be a general crisis. But the only perfectly informed person is God, and he does not play the stock market.”
― Robert Skidelsky, Keynes: The Return of the Master

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“Experience has taught us that material wants know no natural bounds, that they will expand without end unless we consciously restrain them. Capitalism rests precisely on this endless expansion of wants. That is why, for all its success, it remains so unloved. It has given us wealth beyond measure, but has taken away the chief benefit of wealth: the consciousness of having enough.”
― Robert Skidelsky Edward Skidelsky, How Much Is Enough? Money and the Good Life

tags: capitalism, economics, wants, wealth

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“...You haven't I suppose ever mixed with politicians at close quarters. They're awful...their stupidity is inhuman.”
― Robert Skidelsky

tags: humour, politics

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