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Keynes - The Return of the Master
28th August 2009
A new book on Keynes by his eminent biographer Professor Robert Skidelsky arrives in the bookshops this weekend - it is an account of Keynes’s ideas set in the context of the global economic recession. FT Editor Lionel Barber enjoys lunch with Prof Skidlesky in a feature in the weekend edition of the Financial Times.
One of Keynes’ most famous quotes is evoked in conversation
“The long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead. Economists set themselves too easy a task ... if they can only tell us that when the storm is past the ocean is flat again.”
Reviews (more links to follow) Dominic Lawson (Sunday Times)
Robert Skidelsky’s articles in the Guardian
Geoff Riley
Geoff Riley FRSA has been teaching Economics for over thirty years. He has over twenty years experience as Head of Economics at leading schools. He writes extensively and is a contributor and presenter on CPD conferences in the UK and overseas.