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HOW MUCH IS ENOUGH? MONEY AND THE GOOD L by SKIDELSKY ROBERT
Category: Business Finance Management
It's a good question, isn't it - how much money does any of us really need? Anger towards 'greedy' bankers and their 'obscene' bonuses has recently given way to a deeper dissatisfaction towards an economic system geared overwhelmingly to the accumulation of greater and greater wealth. Huge income dispar ...Show more
How Much is Enough. The Love of Money and the Case for a Good Life by Robert Skidelsky & Edward Skidelsky
Category: Business, Economics and Law
In 1930 the great economist Keynes predicted that, over the next century, income would rise steadily, people's basic needs would be met and no one would have to work more than fifteen hours a week. Why was he wrong?
How Much is Enough?: The Love of Money, and the Case for the Good Life by Robert Skidelsky
Category: Philosophy and Religion
In recent years, economic growth has been regarded as a self-evident good, with political debate focussed on the best means to achieve it. But there are now signs that this shared assumption is weakening. Anger at 'greedy' bankers and their 'obscene' bonuses has given way to a deeper dissatisfaction wit ...Show more
John Maynard Keynes 1883-1946: Economist, Philosopher, Statesman by Robert Skidelsky
Category: Biography
Robert Skidelsky's three-volume biography of John Maynard Keynes has been acclaimed as the authoritative account of the great economist-statesman's life. Here, Skidelsky has revised and abridged his magnum opus into one definitive book, which examines in its entirety the intellectual and ideological jou ...Show more
Keynes: The Return of the Master by Robert Jacob Alexander Skidelsky
Category: Business
In the current financial crisis Keynes has been taken out of his cupboard, dusted down, consulted, cited, invoked and appealed to about why events have taken the course they have and how a rescue operation can be effected. Why have we gone back so emphatically to the ideas of an economist who died fifty ...Show more
Keynes: The Return of the Master by Robert Skidelsky
Category: Biography
In the current financial crisis, Keynes has been taken out of his cupboard, dusted down, consulted, cited, invoked and appealed to about why events have taken the course they have and how a rescue operation can be effected. Why have we gone back so emphatically to the ideas of an economist who died fift ...Show more
Money and Government: A Challenge to Mainstrem Economics by Robert Skidelsky
Category: History
The effects of 2008 are still with us today. As restricted growth and austerity have endured, so has the profound crisis of ideas the financial crisis precipitated. In Money and Government, Robert Skidelsky accounts for the causes of the crash. He shows that the underlying causes have not been dealt wit ...Show more
Money and Government: AChallenge to ... by Robert Skidelsky
Category: Business
'In this remarkable work, Robert Skidelsky unites his experience, knowledge and talents in a sweeping account of money and power' James K. Galbraith The dominant view in economics is that money and government should play only a minor role in economic life. Money, it is claimed, is nothing more than a m ...Show more
The Machine Age: An Idea, a History, a Warning by Robert Skidelsky
Category: Science
A sweeping history of humanity's relationship with machines, showing how we got here and what happens next Faith in technological fixes for our problems is waning. Automation, which promised relief from toil, has reactivated the long-standing fear of job redundancy. Information technology, meant to lib ...Show more
What's Wrong with Economics? - A Primer for the Perplexed by Robert Skidelsky
Category: Business
A passionate and informed critique of mainstream economics from one of the leading economic thinkers of our time
What's Wrong with Economics - A Primer for the Perplexed by Robert Skidelsky
Category: Business Finance Management
A passionate and informed critique of mainstream economics from one of the leading economic thinkers of our timeThis insightful book looks at how mainstream economics' quest for scientific certainty has led to a narrowing of vision and a convergence on an orthodoxy that is unhealthy for the field, not t ...Show more
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