Robert Skidelsky
Emeritus Professor of Political Economy, University of Warwick
Robert Skidelsky is Emeritus Professor of Political Economy at the University of Warwick. His three-volume biography of John Maynard Keynes (1983, 1992, 2000) received the Wolfson Prize for History, the Duff Cooper Prize, and numerous other prizes; in his review of vol.2, Norman Stone wrote ‘it should be given a Nobel Prize for History if there was such a thing’. Robert Skidelsky is also the author of Politicians and the Slump (1967), Oswald Mosley (1975), Keynes: The Return of the Master (2009), How Much is Enough? Money and the Good Life, co-authored with Edward Skidelsky (2012), Britain Since 1900: A Success Story? (2014), Money and Government: A Challenge to Mainstream Economics (2018), and What’s Wrong with Economics: A Primer for the Perplexed (2020). He was made a life peer in 1991 and a Fellow of the British Academy in 1994.
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