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Where do we go from here?

Robert Skidelsky — 17th January 2009 — Issue 154 Free entry

The markets have ruled for a third of a century, but it has all ended in tears. A return to selfish nationalism is possible. If we are to avoid this sombre outcome, we must find ways to rub the rough edges off globalisation

Keynes is back

Robert Skidelsky — 23rd November 2008 — Issue 152

Keynes fell from favour because he didn’t believe in iron laws that predicted human behaviour. Now he looks prescient

Joseph Schumpeter

Robert Skidelsky — 22nd December 2007 — Issue 141

The theorist of “creative destruction,” one of the greatest economists of the 20th century, was no stranger to violent disruption in his personal life, as a new biography reveals

Putin’s patrimony

Robert Skidelsky — 22nd March 2007 — Issue 132

Russia’s economy is more dependent on natural resources than in Soviet times. This “oil curse” means a brittle economy and an unstable political system based on the fusion of power and property. Watch out for the coming Putin succession crisis

Subject: Europe, Science & technology

Putin’s patrimony

Robert Skidelsky — 22nd March 2007 — Issue 132

John Bull’s small ideas

Robert Skidelsky — 22nd July 2006 — Issue 124

Stefan Collini wittily refutes the claim that Britain has lacked intellectuals. But British culture has been inhospitable to the discussion of general ideas

Subject: Books & literature

A Chinese homecoming

Robert Skidelsky — 22nd January 2006 — Issue 118 Free entry

A railway contract brought my Russian family to Manchuria 110 years ago. Now that China’s European past is unfreezing, I am welcomed back like a long-lost son to my birthplace, Harbin

Subject: Books & literature, East & Southeast Asia, History & heritage, Lifestyle

The just war tradition

Robert Skidelsky — 18th December 2004 — Issue 105

State sovereignty is fragmenting but world government is still far off. Neither the UN charter, designed to protect member states from aggression, nor the new US doctrine of preventative war can address the challenges of a globalising world. The “just war” tradition provides a sounder moral base

Subject: East & Southeast Asia, International politics