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Skidelsky on the Economic Crisis published by the Centre for Global Studies
Thursday, February 02, 2012
The Centre for Global Studies has published Robert Skidelsky's collected writings on the economic crisis.
"I had to bring Keynes back into the picture... the reason we are not yet out of the woods, more than three years after the crisis, is that governments have been pursuing the wrong policies."
To order Skidelsky on the Economic Crisis, write to 207 Fielden House, 13 Little College Street, London SW1P 3SH.
Robert Skidelsky at the nef’s ABOUT TIME: Examining the case for a shorter working week - 11 January
Tuesday, January 03, 2012
As the economic crisis deepens, this is the moment to consider moving towards much shorter, more flexible paid working hours - sharing out jobs and unpaid time more fairly across the population.
nef's event About Time takes forward the ideas from its highly acclaimed report 21 Hours to examine how this could help to address a range of urgent social, economic and environmental problems we face.
On 11 January, the event brings together a panel of leading experts in partnership with the Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion (CASE) at the London School of Economics:
Lord Robert Skidelsky, Emeritus Professor of Political Economy at the University of Warwick and biographer of J. M. Keynes, and Dr Edward Skidelsky, University of Exeter,
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BBC World Service Forum programme
Sunday, December 11, 2011
Robert appeared this week on the BBC World Service's Forum programme to talk about the financial crisis and ways towards recovery, along with two other economists - Far East specialist Danny Quah and Middle East specialist Timur Kuran.
You can listen to the programme or download it as a podcast at www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00lzhr8, or join the discussion at the Forum's Facebook page.
Is happiness the right measure of social progress?
Tuesday, October 18, 2011
At the Centre for Economic Performance's public debate at LSE, Robert Skidelsky debated with Richard Layard on whether happiness is the right way to measure social progress.
If you missed it, watch the debate online at Youtube
5th Annual China Investment Management Summit, Beijing
Thursday, September 22, 2011
Robert Skidelsky is speaking at the 5th Annual China Investment Management Summit, an invitation-only gathering for China’s largest investors to meet global managers to discuss global investment themes, asset allocation strategies and internationalization of Renminbi for today China’s capital market. Global chief investment officers and China leading investors will share their perspectives on these topics. This year’s theme will be internationalization and transition of Chinese institutional investments and the entire programme is driven by an expert advisory board of investors.