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Letter to the TLS on AI 22nd of July
Last Friday’s news was dominated by the ‘biggest IT outage in history’, as a bug in a routine software update cascaded into a global crisis. Millions of computers were knocked out, thousands of flights cancelled,… Read more
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Letter in the Guardian on AI 2nd of August 2024
In his interesting opinion article (Robots sacked, screenings shut down: a new movement of luddites is rising up against AI, 27 July), Ed Newton-Rex misses one of the most serious concerns about artificial intelligence: its… Read more
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Letter in the Times on Ukraine 24th of July 2024
Sir, William Hague poses a false alternative: letting Russia win or allowing Ukraine to fire western-supplied missiles deep in Russian territory. There is better way: a negotiated peace, involving neither a Ukrainian defeat nor military… Read more
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Letter in the Financial Times on Ukraine 10th of July 2024
Russia’s latest military gains in the Donetsk region (Report, July 5) reinforce the case for a negotiated settlement of the war in Ukraine. The US and its allies support Ukraine’s key war aim, which is… Read more
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Project Syndicate 24th of July 2024
Labour’s Economic Plan Lacks Keynesian Ambition Jul 24, 2024 Robert Skidelsky Today’s risk-averse economic climate calls for increased public investment to attract reluctant private capital. But British Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s insistence on adhering to… Read more
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Letter: The reason Keynes argued for an active fiscal policy
May 1 2024 William White is right (Letters, April 29) to say that John Maynard Keynes regarded the rate of interest as “highly conventional”, but he should have quoted the whole sentence from chapter 15… Read more
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Interview with Martin Burckhardt
Robert was recently interviewed by Martin Burckhardt, the German cultural philosopher, about his new book The Machine Age in Germany. Below is a link to a video of the interview: Link: https://martinburckhardt.substack.com/p/talking-to-robert-skidelsky Below are some… Read more
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The Lost Peace
Russian-Ukrainian peace talks, February–March 2022 20th February 2024 As the Ukrainian war approaches its second anniversary, there has been renewed, if rather limp, talk of a cease-fire followed by negotiations. The premise is that since… Read more
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The Machine Age
My new book, The Machine Age, was published by Allen Lane on the 2nd November 2023. It’s available to buy on Amazon. Launch events were held at the Royal Society of Arts on the 6th… Read more
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