Robert Skidelsky
Robert Skidelsky is Emeritus Professor of Political Economy at Warwick University, England. The single-volume abridgment of his three-volume biography of John Maynard Keynes was published in 2007 in the US. He is currently completing a short history of Britain in the twentieth century. www.skidelskyr.com. (January 2009)
From the Review
July 16, 2009: The World Finance Crisis & the American Mission
Fixing Global Finance by Martin Wolf
January 15, 2009: Can You Spare a Dime?
The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World by Niall Ferguson
June 12, 2008: 'Gloomy About Globalization' (letter)
April 17, 2008: Gloomy About Globalization
Making Globalization Work by Joseph E. Stiglitz
May 31, 2007: Winning a Gamble with Communism
By Force of Thought: Irregular Memoirs of an Intellectual Journey by János Kornai
October 19, 2006: 'The War That Never Ended' (letter)
October 5, 2006: Drawing a Dog in Iraq
The Prince of the Marshes and Other Occupational Hazards of a Year in Iraq by Rory Stewart
September 21, 2006: Which Road to Berlin? (letter)
July 13, 2006: Hot, Cold and Imperial
1945: The War That Never Ended by Gregor Dallas
Among Empires: American Ascendancy and Its Predecessors by Charles S. Maier
December 1, 2005: The Chinese Shadow: II
Three Billion New Capitalists: The Great Shift of Wealth and Power to the East by Clyde Prestowitz
China, Inc.: How the Rise of the Next Superpower Challenges America and the World by Ted C. Fishman
Made in China: Women Factory Workers in a Global Workplace by Pun Ngai
China's Urban Transition by John Friedmann
The River Runs Black: The Environmental Challenge to China's Future by Elizabeth C. Economy
November 17, 2005: The Chinese Shadow
Three Billion New Capitalists: The Great Shift of Wealth and Power to the East by Clyde Prestowitz
China, Inc.: How the Rise of the Next Superpower Challenges America and the World by Ted C. Fishman
February 24, 2005: In the Führer's Face
Making Friends with Hitler: Lord Londonderry, the Nazis and the Road to World War II by Ian Kershaw
March 25, 2004: One World?
One World: The Ethics of Globalization by Peter Singer
Free Trade Today by Jagdish Bhagwati
World on Fire: How Exporting Free Market Democracy Breeds Ethnic Hatred and Global Instability by Amy Chua
The Chastening: Inside the Crisis That Rocked the Global Financial System and Humbled the IMF by Paul Blustein
March 13, 2003: The Mystery of Growth
The Spirit of Capitalism: Nationalism and Economic Growth by Liah Greenfeld
Lectures on Economic Growth by Robert E. Lucas Jr.
August 9, 2001: What Makes the World Go Round?
The Cash Nexus: Money and Power in the Modern World, 1700-2000 by Niall Ferguson
March 8, 2001: The World on a String
Open Society: Reforming Global Capitalism by George Soros
November 16, 2000: What's Left of Marx?
Karl Marx: A Life by Francis Wheen
May 25, 2000: All in the Family
Five Sisters: The Langhornes of Virginia by James Fox
December 16, 1999: Family Values
The House of Rothschild: The World's Banker, 1849-1999 by Niall Ferguson
The House of Rothschild: Money's Prophets, 1798-1848 by Niall Ferguson
May 6, 1999: Giant
Morgan: American Financier by Jean Strouse
September 29, 1977: Cutting Mosley (letter)