‘The Failure of Austerity’ by Lord Robert Skidelsky - SPERI Annual Lecture 2015

Professor Colin Hay, Co-Director of SPERI describes some of the work that has been happening at SPERI over the past 12 months, and introduces Lord Robert Skidelsky

Lord Robert Skidelsky dissects the recent political economic trajectory of Britain and other parts of Europe. Robert Skidelsky is the author of many books, but is renowned for his epic and acclaimed three-volume biography of John Maynard Keynes, published over the period from 1983 to 2000. The books won several prizes. More recently in 2009, amidst the current crisis, he published Keynes: The Return of the Master. His latest book, published in 2012 and entitled How Much is Enough?: Money and the Good Life, was co-authored with his son Edward. He continues to write regularly in newspapers and magazines all over the world. Robert Skidelsky was born in Manchuria, of British parents with Russian ancestry. He read history at Oxford and became a research fellow of Nuffield College. In 1978 he was appointed to a Chair at the University of Warwick and remained there as Professor of Political Economy until his retirement. He is also currently Andrew D. White Professor-at-Large at Cornell University. Filmed at the Octagon Centre at the University of Sheffield on the 19th May 2015.