Results for "Skidelsky, Robert"

This sweeping history of humanity’s relationship with machines illuminates how we got here and what happens next, with AI, climate change, and beyond.Faith in technological fixes for our problems is waning. Automation, which promised relief from toil, has reactivated the long-standing fear of job re... Read More about Mindless: The Human Condition in the Machine Age

This timely book debates the economic and political logic of the austerity policies that have been implemented in the UK and in the Eurozone since 2010 and asks whether there is any alternative for these countries in the years ahead. The work reconsiders the austerity versus stimulus debate through ... Read More about Austerity Vs Stimulus: The Political Future of Economic Recovery

Acknowledgements.- Introduction.- Session 1: Economics and Power: Basic Models of the Relationship.- Power and Economics.- Steven Lukes.- Jonathan Hearn.- Economics as Superstructure.- Norbert Haring.- Lucas Zeise.- Economics as Science.- Nancy Cartwright.- John Bryan Davis.- Session 2: Case Studies... Read More about Who Runs the Economy?: The Role of Power in Economics

The essential writings of the 20th century’s most influential economist, collected in one volume Today, John Maynard Keynes is best remembered for his pioneering development of macroeconomics, and for his advocacy of active fiscal and monetary government policy. This uniquely comprehensive sel... Read More about The Essential Keynes

John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946) is a central thinker of the twentieth century, not just an economic theorist and statesman, but also an important figure in economics, philosophy, politics, and culture. In this Very Short Introduction Lord Skidelsky, a renowned biographer of Keynes, explores his ethi... Read More about Keynes: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)

THE DEFINITIVE SINGLE-VOLUME BIOGRAPHY Robert Skidelsky's three-volume biography of John Maynard Keynes has been acclaimed as the authoritative account of the great economist-statesman's life. Here, Skidelsky has revised and abridged his magnum opus into one definitive book, which examines in its e... Read More about John Maynard Keynes: 1883-1946: Economist, Philosopher, Statesman