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    The Machine Age

    Robert Skidelsky

    A sweeping history of and meditation on humanity's relationship with machines, showing how we got here and what happens next

    We live in a world made by machines; their development…

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    Mindless

    Robert Skidelsky

    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…

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    What’s Wrong with Economics?: A Primer for the Perplexed

    Robert Skidelsky

    A passionate and informed critique of mainstream economics from one of the leading economic thinkers of our time

    This insightful book looks at how mainstream economics’ quest for scientific certainty…

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    Britain Since 1900 - A Success Story?

    Robert Skidelsky

    Starting with an assessment of the material, political, cultural and moral resources Britain brought to the twentieth century, the author turns to how events and the actions of Lloyd George…

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    Keynes: The Return of the Master

    Robert Skidelsky

    Skidelsky brilliantly synthesizes from John Maynard Keynes’s career and life the aspects of his thinking that apply most directly to today’s world. In so doing, Skidelsky shows that Keynes’s mixture…

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    Money and Government: A Challenge to Mainstream Economics

    Robert Skidelsky

    A major challenge to economic orthodoxy, by one of Britain’s leading historians and economists

    The dominant view in economics is that money and government should play only a minor role…

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    Keynes: The Return of the Master

    Robert Skidelsky

    When unbridled capitalism falters, is there an alternative? This title shows how the great economist’s ideas not only explain why the current financial crisis occurred - but are our best…

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    John Maynard Keynes: 1883-1946: Economist, Philosopher, Statesman

    Robert Skidelsky

    Offers a sympathetic account of the life of a passionate visionary and an invaluable insight into the economic philosophy that still remains at the centre of political and economic thought.

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    What’s Wrong with Economics?: A Primer for the Perplexed

    Robert Skidelsky

    A passionate and informed critique of mainstream economics from one of the leading economic thinkers of our time

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    Keynes

    Robert Skidelsky

    This short introduction to the life and work of John Maynard Keynes evaluates his influence as an economic theorist and statesman, but also examines his cultural and social milieu, his…

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    How Much is Enough?: Money and the Good Life

    Robert Skidelsky,Edward Skidelsky

    Argues that wealth is not - or should not be - an end in itself, but a means to ‘the good life’. Tracing the concept from Aristotle to the present…

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    How Much is Enough?: Money and the Good Life

    Robert Skidelsky,Edward Skidelsky

    Argues that wealth is not - or should not be - an end in itself, but a means to ‘the good life’. Tracing the concept from Aristotle to the present…

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    How Much is Enough?: Money and the Good Life

    Edward Skidelsky,Robert Skidelsky

    Argues that wealth is not - or should not be - an end in itself, but a means to ‘the good life’. Tracing the concept from Aristotle to the present…

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    Who Runs the Economy?: The Role of Power in Economics

    Whilst economics may be able to discuss bargaining power and market power, it fails to explore the reciprocal connections between economic ideas and politics: the political power of economic ideas…

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    Work in the Future: The Automation Revolution

    This short, accessible book seeks to explore the future of work through the views and opinions of a range of expertise, encompassing economic, historical, technological, ethical and anthropological aspects of…

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    Austerity vs Stimulus: The Political Future of Economic Recovery

    Robert Skidelsky,Nicolo Fraccaroli

    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…

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    Keynes: A Very Short Introduction

    Robert Skidelsky (Emeritus Professor of Political Economy at the University of Warwick)

    John Maynard Keynes was one of the most influential economists of the twentieth century. His ideas have had a central influence on many of areas of economics used today, both…

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    The Essential Keynes

    John Maynard Keynes

    Features a selection of writings on economics, philosophy, social theory and policy.

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    Three Great Economists: Smith, Malthus, Keynes

    D. D. Raphael,Donald Winch (Professor of History of Economics, Sussex University),Robert Skidelsky

    Three Great Economists contains studies of three economic theorists: Smith, whose The Wealth of Nations, advocated free trade; Malthus, whose polemical Essay on Population generated misunderstanding and vilification; and Keynes…

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