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Robert Skidelski specifically about the Moscow School of Civic Education, which has been forced to register as a 'foreign agent' despite its excellent educational work.

It is indefensible for Osborne to cut the welfare state as if it were the cause of the crisis by Robert Skidelsky for New Statesman

Last May, Higgins told economics students at the University of Chicago that they were studying a deformed discipline, torn from its ethical and philosophical roots. He then proposed a “critical examination of some of the core assumptions that underpin economics as it is currently taught in university departments across the world

Cameron is right to warn of another recession, but wrong to blame the world. When governments cut their deficits when the private sector is still shell-shocked by slump, the situation only gets worse

Every economic collapse brings a demand for debt forgiveness. The incomes needed to repay loans have evaporated, and assets posted as collateral have lost value. Creditors demand their pound of flesh; debtors clamor for relief

Vladimir Putin may (or may not) enjoy 80% public support in Russia for his Ukraine policy; but it has become increasingly clear that he has bitten off more than he can chew. The question is: At what point will his position as President become untenable?

While the rest of the world recovers from the Great Recession of 2008-2009, Europe is stagnating. Eurozone growth is expected to be 1.7% next year. What can be done about it?

On Anglo-American rhetoric over events in the Ukraine, the widespread confusion in current western sanctions policy and chance of keeping Ukraine together

Historians tell us that the Luddites were victims of a temporary conjuncture of rising prices and falling wages that threatened them with starvation in a society with minimal welfare provision. The Luddites, however, blamed their misfortune on the machines themselves. Robert Skidelsky on the new trend of modernity - blame the machine and talk the new industrial revolution

Robert Skidelski reflects about the petro-diplomacy, oil-based economy and the Third Way of Venezuela. In the aftermath of the collapse of communism, Chávez’s mix of anti-Americanism and state activism seemed merely eccentric. There could be no alternative to free markets and the neoliberal Washington Consensus – or so it appeared.