Keynes and the Crisis of Capitalism. Speaker: Professor Lord Skidelsky (17 dec 2010)

Speaker: Professor Lord Skidelsky, Chair: Professor Mary Kaldor, This event was recorded on 7 October 2009 in Old Theatre, Old Building. Robert Skidelsky is Emeritus Professor of Political Economy at the University of Warwick. His three-volume biography of the economist John Maynard Keynes (1983, 1992, 2000) received numerous prizes, including the Lionel Gelber Prize for International Relations and the Council on Foreign Relations Prize for International Relations. He is the author of The World After Communism (1995) (American edition called The Road from Serfdom). He was made a life peer in 1991, and was elected Fellow of the British Academy in 1994. This event celebrates his latest book, Keynes: The Return of the Master