Robert Skidelsky: Lecture 5: Distribution as a Macroeconomic Problem

Here Skidelsky gives lecture 5 of a series at the University of Warwick on economics. This lecture concerns distribution and macroeconomics.

Robert Skidelsky: Lecture 4: Banking Reform

Here Skidelsky gives lecture 4 of a series at the University of Warwick on economics. This lecture concerns banks and banking reform.

Robert Skidelsky: Lecture 3: Fiscal Policy

Here Skidelsky gives lecture 3 of a series at the University of Warwick on economics. This lecture concerns fiscal policy.

Robert Skidelsky: Lecture 2: Monetary Policy

Here Skidelsky gives lecture 2 of a series at the University of Warwick on economics. This lecture is a discussion of central banks and monetary policy, especially before the crisis of 2008.

Robert Skidelsky on the State of Economics, Banks, and Inequality

Robert Skidelsky, author of Keynes: The Return of the Master (London, rev. edn. 2010), speaks below in an interview on the state of neoclassical economics, banks, and inequality. Unfortunately, I don’t think Skidelsky sees the how rotten the current EU is and the merits of a possible Brexit, but apart from this there is much of interest here.

Robert Skidelsky discusses Keynes with Paul Mason

An interesting video discussion of Keynes by Robert Skidelsky with Paul Mason, held as part of the Charleston Festival 2014 on 23rd May 2014.

The discussion centres on Keynes’ short essay called “Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren,” and begins at 38.30 (following a talk by Mason).

Robert Skidelsky on Capitalism, Government and the Good Society

Though the talks and discussion afterwards involve many people, Robert Skidelsky gives his opinions from 21.50. This was a Liberty Fund event at Butler University on April 10, 2013 (not long after the death of Margaret Thatcher).

Skidelsky on the Tory Austerity in the UK

Robert Skidelsky is interviewed here on Russia Today (RT) on the results of Tory-Liberal Democrat austerity in the UK.

At one point, the interviewer (at 7.46) refers to Steve Keen as “James” Keen, a rather unfortunate error!

Russ Roberts Interviews Robert Skidelsky

Below is a link to an audio interview by Russ Roberts with Robert Skidelsky. The discussion partly deals with the new book How Much is Enough: Money and the Good Life by Robert Skidelsky and Edward Skidelsky:

http://files.libertyfund.org/econtalk/y2012/Skidelskyenough.mp3

Skidelsky on the Economic Crisis and its Aftermath

A short talk here by Robert Skidelsky to the Institute of International and European Affairs (IIEA) on the aftermath of the great recession of 2008 to 2009, and the disaster of contractionary fiscal policy in the UK.

Skidelsky shatters the pro-austerity myths of the Tory-Lib Dem coalition currently ruling Britain.

Skidelsky on the Keynesian Beauty Contest

A short interview with Robert Skidelsky here by the Financial Times (FT) on the state of Eurozone financial markets and the UK, with a brief comment on the metaphor of the Keynesian beauty contest.

Robert Skidelsky on the Eurozone Disaster

Two videos below of an interview with Robert Skidelsky on the current Eurozone problems, by Social Europe Journal.

Big Think Interview with Robert Skidelsky

A short interview with Robert Skidelsky on Keynes and economics in this video.

Robert Skidelsky on Lessons from the Crisis

This is an OECD interview with Robert Skidelsky, about a year old, but still relevant, and Skidelsky is right.

Skidelsky on How Much is Enough? or The Economics of the Good Life

An interesting talk here by Robert Skidelsky on the value of wealth, and the achievement of the “good life.” Skidelsky refers to Keynes’s Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren (1930).

Robert Skidelsky on Keynes and the Crisis

This is an interesting interwiew with Robert Skidelsky on the Real News network, with quite a few issues discussed: the historical role of the IMF, Bretton Woods, and the current crisis.