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Book Review: On the threshold - of what?
Robert Skidelsky
Times Literary Supplement
| Friday, December 26, 2008
The Trillion Dollar Meltdown: easy money, high rollers and the great credit crash
by Charles R. Morris
Public Affairs £13.99
The Credit Crunch: housing bubbles, globalization and the worldwide economic crisis
by Graham Turner
Pluto Press. Paperback. £14.99
The Conscience of a Liberal: reclaiming America from the Right
By Paul Krugman
Allen Lane. £20.
Common Wealth: economics for a crowded planet
By Jeffrey Sachs
386pp. Penguin. £22.
New Frontiers in Free Trade: Globalization’s future and Asia’s rising role
By Razeen Sally
Cato Institute. $18.95
The Economists’ Voice: Top economists take on today’s problems
By Joseph E. Stiglitz, ...
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Book Review: Now You Don’t
Robert Skidelsky
Times Literary Supplement
| Friday, June 25, 2004
Decline of the Public
by David Marquand
Polity. Paperback, £14.99
David Marquand swells the chorus with this powerful and eloquent polemic.
Marquand hoped that a "New Labour" Government would reinvigorate "the public domain" of British life, hollowed out, as he saw it by the privatizing and centralizing assaults of Margaret Thatcher. Instead, he finds that the tendencies he deplores have raced ahead under Tony Blair. So the task remains to be done. Marquand is himself an ornament ...
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Book Review: A stake in the heart
Robert Skidelsky
Times Literary Supplement
| Friday, January 21, 2000
The Stakeholder Society
by Bruce Ackerman and Anne Alstott
Yale University Press. £16.95.
In the 1980s, both Communism and democratic socialism succumbed to globalization. There is much about this double defeat which is still mysterious, not least its rough coincidence in time. What is clear is that, from the 1970s onwards, socialism started to recede. It lost its intellectual hegemony, its political support, its technological rationale. The God which was seen to have failed was collectivism - the centralized planning of a society's future.
Margaret Thatcher in Britain and Ronald Reagan in the United States set out to shrink the ...
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Doing good and being good
Robert Skidelsky
Times Literary Supplement
| Friday, March 26, 1999
Shaw was much older than Keynes. He was born in 1856, Keynes in 1883. He was a Victorian, Keynes an Edwardian. When their lives started to criss-cross after the First World War, Keynes was in his forties, Shaw already in his seventies.
There is a photograph of them together on the steps of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, in 1935, the only one, I think. It must have been an official occasion, for Keynes is in gown and mortarboard, a middle-aged don with a grey moustache, his face that of a man of business as well as a scholar, gazing impassively into the camera. Shaw stands beside him, a little apart, looking wary - he didn't like ...
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What’s wrong with global capitalism?
Robert Skidelsky
Times Literary Supplement
| Friday, March 27, 1998
False Dawn: Delusions of global capitalism.
by John Gray
Granta Books £17.99
While reading John Gray's False Dawn, a diatribe against global capitalism, I had to keep reminding myself that I was reviewing a book, not a person. Gray's intellectual gyrations have become legendary. I am told he was a socialist in the 1970s. He was a Thatcherite in the 1980s. (The Iron Lady once said to me: "What ever happened to John Gray? He used to be one of us.") Then he adopted the fashionable communitarianism. Judging from his latest book, he is what Marx would have called a "Reactionist" - with hope extinguished, but with a lively apprehension of ...
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