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Robert Skidelsky is a British economic historian and biographer best known for his three-volume biography of John Maynard Keynes. He is a member of the House of Lords and has written extensively on economic theory, history, and public policy.
Known for: Keynes: The Return of the Master
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Keynes: The Return of the Master
This book revisits the ideas of John Maynard Keynes in the wake of the 2008 global financial crisis. Skidelsky argues that Keynes’s insights into uncertainty, government intervention, and the limits of market self-regulation remain crucial for understanding modern economic instability. The author provides a concise and accessible account of Keynes’s philosophy and its relevance to contemporary policy debates.
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The Intellectual World Before Keynes
Before Keynes appeared on the scene, economics was grounded in what we now call the classical and later the neoclassical traditions. These schools imagined a world governed by self-regulating markets, where rational individuals acted with perfect foresight, and prices, through the forces of supply a...
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Keynes’s Challenge to Economic Orthodoxy
The originality of Keynes lay in his willingness to start from human experience rather than abstract logic. He argued that classical economics failed because it misrepresented how people actually behave under uncertainty. The assumption that savings automatically translate into investment, that wage...
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About Robert Skidelsky
Robert Skidelsky is a British economic historian and biographer best known for his three-volume biography of John Maynard Keynes. He is a member of the House of Lords and has written extensively on economic theory, history, and public policy.
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