
The Silent Revolution in Economic Policy
Feb 16, 2021 welcomes policymakers’ belated realization that fiscal stimulus must be central to post-pandemic recovery plans.
Robert Skidelsky, a member of the British House of Lords, is Professor Emeritus of Political Economy at Warwick University. The author of a three-volume biography of John Maynard Keynes, he began his political career in the Labour party, became the Conservative Party’s spokesman for Treasury affairs in the House of Lords, and was eventually forced out of the Conservative Party for his opposition to NATO’s intervention in Kosovo in 1999.
Feb 16, 2021 welcomes policymakers’ belated realization that fiscal stimulus must be central to post-pandemic recovery plans.
Jan 22, 2021 shows why today's heated debates about the past are as much a historiographical matter as a historical one.
Jan 18, 2021 argues that the United Kingdom’s recent departure from the European Union was no historical accident.
Dec 17, 2020 urges economists to focus on boosting resilience to shocks rather than maximizing productivity.
Nov 13, 2020 & call for full employment to be at the heart of the United Kingdom’s fiscal and monetary policy.
Many would regard the middle of a pandemic-induced economic crisis as the wrong time to sound the alarm about the potential dangers of profligate government spending. But as US President Joe Biden’s proposed $1.9 trillion economic rescue plan works its way through Congress, it is not only Republicans who are asking whether providing too much fiscal stimulus could be just as risky as delivering too little.