Robert Skidelsky is Emeritus Professor of Political Economy at Warwick University, England. His latest book is Keynes: The Return of the Master. Felix Martin, an economist at Thames River Capital LLP, worked at the World Bank for two stretches between 1998 and 2008. He was formerly an executive board member and analyst at the European Stability Initiative. www.skidelskyr.com. (April 2011)
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For a National Investment Bank
April 28, 2011
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The World Finance Crisis & the American Mission
July 16, 2009
Fixing Global Finance
by Martin Wolf
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Can You Spare a Dime?
January 15, 2009
The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World
by Niall Ferguson
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‘Gloomy About Globalization’
June 12, 2008
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Gloomy About Globalization
April 17, 2008
Making Globalization Work
by Joseph E. Stiglitz
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Winning a Gamble with Communism
May 31, 2007
By Force of Thought: Irregular Memoirs of an Intellectual Journey
by János Kornai
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‘The War That Never Ended’
October 19, 2006
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Drawing a Dog in Iraq
October 5, 2006
The Prince of the Marshes and Other Occupational Hazards of a Year in Iraq
by Rory Stewart
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Which Road to Berlin?
September 21, 2006
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Hot, Cold and Imperial
July 13, 2006
1945: The War That Never Ended
by Gregor Dallas
Among Empires: American Ascendancy and Its Predecessors
by Charles S. Maier
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The Chinese Shadow: II
December 1, 2005
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
China’s Urban Transition
by John Friedmann
Made in China: Women Factory Workers in a Global Workplace
by Pun Ngai
The River Runs Black: The Environmental Challenge to China’s Future
by Elizabeth C. Economy
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The Chinese Shadow
November 17, 2005
Three Billion New Capitalists: The Great Shift of Wealth and Power to the East
China, Inc.: How the Rise of the Next Superpower Challenges America and the World
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In the Führer’s Face
February 24, 2005
Making Friends with Hitler: Lord Londonderry, the Nazis and the Road to World War II
by Ian Kershaw
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One World?
March 25, 2004
One World: The Ethics of Globalization
by Peter Singer
Free Trade Today
by Jagdish Bhagwati
The Chastening: Inside the Crisis That Rocked the Global Financial System and Humbled the IMF
by Paul Blustein
World on Fire: How Exporting Free Market Democracy Breeds Ethnic Hatred and Global Instability
by Amy Chua
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The Mystery of Growth
March 13, 2003
The Spirit of Capitalism: Nationalism and Economic Growth
by Liah Greenfeld
Lectures on Economic Growth
by Robert E. Lucas Jr.
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What Makes the World Go Round?
August 9, 2001
The Cash Nexus: Money and Power in the Modern World, 1700-2000 by Niall Ferguson
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The World on a String
March 8, 2001
Open Society: Reforming Global Capitalism by George Soros
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What’s Left of Marx?
November 16, 2000
Karl Marx: A Life
by Francis Wheen
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All in the Family
May 25, 2000
Five Sisters: The Langhornes of Virginia
by James Fox
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Family Values
December 16, 1999
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
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Giant
May 6, 1999
Morgan: American Financier
by Jean Strouse
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Cutting Mosley
September 29, 1977