41 Results for “skidelsky”
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YSI Event
'How much is Enough?' with Robert Skidelky
YSI
DiscussionOct 12, 2016
The epidemic extension of working hours and difficulty in maintaining work-life balance raises the question of the point of income and leisure satisfaction.
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Article
Demystifying Monetary Finance
Aug 17, 2016
The debate about so-called helicopter money is burdened by deep fears and unnecessary confusions: some worry that monetary finance is bound to produce hyperinflation; others argue that, in terms of increasing demand and inflation, it would be no more effective than current policies. Both cannot be right.
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Article
General Equilibrium Theory: Sound and Fury, Signifying Nothing?
Aug 16, 2016
Does general equilibrium theory sufficiently enhance our understanding of the economic process to make the entire exercise worthwhile, if we consider that other forms of thinking may have been ‘crowded out’ as a result of its being the ‘dominant discourse’? What, in the end, have we really learned from it?
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Article
How to relax and start loving the robots
Jun 3, 2016
Anxiety over human labor being replaced by cyborgs may be in vogue, but it’s overblown — machines may help us achieve healthier and more meaningful lives
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Article
A Teachable Moment for the Economics Profession?
May 27, 2016
What we’re reading: A weekly scan of published items relevant to the Institute’s work
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News
Adair Turner Oxford Book Launch
Nov 30, 2015
Lord Adair Turner visited the Oxford Martin Lecture Theatre on Tuesday 24 November for a well-attended INET Oxford event launching his latest book ‘Between Debt and the Devil: Money, Credit, and Fixing Global Finance’ (Princeton University Press).
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Video
Economics and Political Power during the Crisis
Sep 11, 2013
What was the political dynamic driving post-crisis economic policy?
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Conference Session
1930 and the Challenge of the Depression for Economic Thinking
Apr 7, 2010 | 03:00—05:00
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Working Paper
Conference paperInterpreting the Great Depression: Hayek versus Keynes
Apr 2010
This is not intended to be a purely historical paper. I am interested in the light the Keynesian and Hayekian interpretations of the Great Depression throw on the causes of the Great Recession of 2007-9 and in the policy relevance of the two positions to the management of today’s globalizing economy.
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Conference Session
Bretton Woods: What Can We Learn From The Past In Designing The Future
Apr 8, 2011 | 03:00—04:30
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Conference Session
Economics and the Powerful: Faulty Analysis, Economic Advice and the Imperatives of Power
Apr 5, 2013 | 12:00—01:30
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Article
Thoughts On Skidelsky's Rant Against The Current Economics Curriculum
Jun 9, 2015
The extremely wise Robert Skidelsky has an excellent rant against Anglo-Saxon economics departments
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Article
Party Competition to Cut the Government Deficit by More in the UK's General Election
Apr 14, 2015
At least the Labour Party has only promised to cut day-to-day spending, not public investment.
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Article
False Economic Policy Clichés and General Elections
Apr 13, 2015
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Education
Economics Curriculum Committee