
The End of Efficiency
Dec 17, 2020 urges economists to focus on boosting resilience to shocks rather than maximizing productivity.
Robert Skidelsky, a member of the British House of Lords, is Professor Emeritus of Political Economy at Warwick University. 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.
Dec 17, 2020 urges economists to focus on boosting resilience to shocks rather than maximizing productivity.
Nov 13, 2020 & call for full employment to be at the heart of the United Kingdom’s fiscal and monetary policy.
Oct 14, 2020 doubts that companies that gain users and revenue from fake news will ever be reliable guardians of true news.
Sep 21, 2020 challenges critics of the UK government's Brexit strategy to argue their case on pragmatic rather than legal grounds.
Aug 24, 2020 rejects the orthodox economic view that public investment is bound to be less efficient than private capital.