Who Runs the Economy?: The Role of Power in Economics By Robert Skidelsky
Political economy in macroeconomics
Since the financial crisis of 2008 and the following Great Recession there has been surprisingly little change in the systems of ideas institutions and policies which preceded the crash and helped bring it about Mainstream economics carries on much as it did before Despite much discussion of what went wrong very little has substantially changed Perhaps the answer has something to do with power a subject on which economics is unusually quiet Whilst economics may be able to discuss bargaining power and market power it fails to explore the reciprocal connections between economic ideas and the political power of economic ideas on the one side and the influence of power structures on economic thought on the other This book explores how the supposedly neutral discipline of economics does not simply describe human behaviour but in fact shapes it Who Runs the Economy The Role of Power in EconomicsLord Skidelsky is Emeritus Professor of Political Economy at the University of Warwick His three volume biography of the economist 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 is the author of the The World After Communism 1995 American edition called The Road from Serfdom He was made a life peer in 1991 and was elected Fellow of the British Academy in 1994 He is chairman of the Govenors of Brighton College Robert Skidelsky was born on 25 April 1939 in Harbin Manchuria His parents were British subjects but of Russian ancestry His father worked for the family firm L S Skid Lord Skidelsky is Emeritus Professor of Political Economy at the University of Warwick His three volume biography of the economist 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 is the author of the The World After Communism 1995 American edition called The Road from Serfdom He was made a life peer in 1991 and was elected Fellow of the British Academy in 1994 He is chairman of the Govenors of Brighton College Robert Skidelsky was born on 25 April 1939 in Harbin Manchuria His parents were British subjects but of Russian ancestry His father worked for the family firm L S Skidelsky which leased the Mulin coalmine from the Chinese government When war broke out between Britain and Japan in December 1941 he and his parents were interned first in Manchuria then Japan but released in exchange for Japanese internees in England From 1953 to 1958 he was a boarder at Brighton College of which he is now chairman of the board of governors He went on to read history at Jesus College Oxford and from 1961 to 1969 he was successively research student senior student and research fellow at Nuffield College Oxford In 1967 he published his first book Politicians and the Slump Labour Government of 1929 31 based on his D. How to think about the economy book Phil dissertation The book explores the ways in which British politicians handled the Great Depression During a two year research fellowship at the British Academy he began work in his biography of Sir Oswald Mosley published in 1975 and published English Progressive Schools 1969 In 1970 he became an Associate Professor at the School of Advanced International Studies John Hopkins University But the controversy surrounding the publication of his biography of Sir Oswald Mosley in which he was felt to have let Mosley off too lightly led John Hopkins University to refuse him tenure Oxford University also proved unwilling to give him a permanent post In 1978 he was appointed Professor of International Studies at the University of Warwick where he has since remained though joining the Economics Department as Professor Political Economy in 1990 He is currently Andrew D White Professor at Large at Cornell University The first volume of his biography of John Maynard Keynes Hopes Betrayed 1883 1920 was published in 1983 The second volume The Economist as Saviour 1920 1937 1992 won the Wolfson Prize for History The third volume Fighting for Britain 1937 1946 2000 won the Duff Cooper Prize the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Biography the Lionel Gelber Prize for International Relations and the Arthur Ross Council on Foreign Relations Prize for International Relations Since 2003 he has been a non executive director of the mutual fund manager Janus Capital and Rusnano Capital from 2008 10 he sat on the board of Sistema JSC He is a director of the Moscow School of Political Studies and was the founder and executive secretary of the UK Russia Round Table Since 2002 he has been chairman of the Centre for Global Studies In 2010 he joined the Advisory Board of the Institute of New Economic Thinking He writes a monthly column for Project Syndicate Against the Current which is syndicated in newspapers all over the world His account of the current economic crisis Keynes The Return of the Master was published by Penguin Allen Lane in September 2009 A short history of twentieth century Britain was published by Random House in the volume A World by Itself A History of the British Isles edited by Jonathan Clark in January 2010 He is now in the process of writing How Much is Enough The Economics of the Good Life jointly with his son Edward Skidelsky site_link
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