Robert Skidelsky

a member of the British House of Lords, is Professor Emeritus of Political Economy at Warwick University, author of a prize-winning biography of the economist John Maynard Keynes, and a board member of the Moscow School of Political Studies. This commentary is published by Daily News Egypt in collaboration with Project Syndicate, www.project-syndicate.org.
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The wars of austerity

LONDON: I have become increasingly less hopeful about prospects for a rapid…

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Russia debates its future

YAROSLAVL: Russia is said by many to lack a “civil society.” But…

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Fixing the right hole

LONDON: The “laws of holes” are as unforgiving as the laws of…

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Consolidators versus stimulators

LONDON: All intellectual systems rely on assumptions that do not need to…

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Keynes and social democracy today

LONDON: For decades, Keynesianism was associated with social democratic big-government policies. But…

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The price of clarity

LONDON: “Through the contrivance and cunning of stock jobbers there hath been…

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The Naked Euro

LONDON: Dramatic challenges, and mediocre responses: that is the history of the…

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The big bank fix

LONDON: Two alternative approaches dominate current discussions about banking reform: break-up and…

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The bogey of inflation

LONDON: How real is the danger of inflation for the world economy?…

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In regulation we trust?

LONDON: From next year, on swearing allegiance to the Queen, all members…

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