Automation and American Leadership
suggests that economic equity and global technological dominance might be incompatible political goals.
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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The Advanced Economies’ Lost Decade
analyzes the policy successes and failures in the aftermath of the 2007-2008 global financial crisis.
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Is the Press Too Free?
argues that recent privacy violations once again highlight the need for government regulation.
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The Next Stage of Women’s Emancipation?
provides an economic rationale for the attack on gender bias that has come to define feminists' strategy.
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How Economics Survived the Economic Crisis
asks why the Great Recession produced no intellectual shift similar to the rise of Keynesianism or monetarism.
