Money and Government
a challenge to mainstream economics
$25.81
- Paperback
512 pages
- Release Date
18 November 2019
Summary
Challenging Economic Orthodoxy: Money, Government, and the Future of the Global Economy
The prevailing economic view minimizes the role of money and government, advocating for market-driven outcomes and a limited state. Robert Skidelsky, a leading historian and economist, challenges this orthodoxy by tracing its origins and the crises that have tested its resilience.
Skidelsky reveals how, despite the 2008 global financial crisis, the pre-crash orthodoxy was reinstated, enac…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141988610 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0141988614 |
| Author: | Robert Skidelsky |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 512 |
| Release Date: | 18 November 2019 |
| Weight: | 344g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 21mm |
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Critics Review
Skidelsky, historian and biographer of Keynes, is a major figure in the revival of Keynesian thought since the financial crisis. His aim in this ambitious new book is to argue that pervasive uncertainty, which Keynes emphasised in his seminal theory of the 1930s, explains why money and governments must be central players in any market economy. – Martin Wolf * Financial Times (Books of the Year) *
About The Author
Robert Skidelsky
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 numerous prizes, including the Lionel Gelber Prize for International Relations and the Council on Foreign Relations Prize for International Relations. He was made a life peer in 1991, and a Fellow of the British Academy in 1994.
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