Good Politics, Bad Economics
argues that liberalism must be decoupled from market fundamentalism if it is to regain credibility.
Robert Skidelsky
Robert Skidelsky, Professor Emeritus of Political Economy at Warwick University and a fellow of the British Academy in history and economics, is a member of the British House of Lords. The author of a three-volume biography of John Maynard Keynes, he began his political career in the Labour party, became the Conservative Party’s spokesman for Treasury affairs in the House of Lords, and was eventually forced out of the Conservative Party for his opposition to NATO’s intervention in Kosovo in 1999.
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Protectionism for Liberals
argues that globalization has made the link between free trade and free politics entirely spurious.
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The British History of Brexit
is unpersuaded that crashing out of the EU in March 2019 would be economically catastrophic for Britain.
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Putin Family Values
thinks Russia and the West may be both further apart and closer together than at any time in the post-Soviet era.
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Why Reinvent the Monetary Wheel?
says that cryptocurrencies will inevitably face the same problems as the gold standard did.
