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Book notes: Keynes for our times, by Robert Skidelsky

Skidelsky skilfully reframes economic debates in this distilled biography, but overreaches in the final chapters

Cover of ‘Keynes for our times’, by Robert Skidelsky
Yale University Press

Robert Skidelsky, Keynes for our times, Yale University Press, 2026, 200 pages

John Maynard Keynes is one of the best-known economists of all time and is frequently invoked when politicians need to justify a jolt of stimulus to get their economies out of a rut. But, as the late Robert Skidelsky explains in this distillation of his life’s work as biographer of Keynes, the great man is often misunderstood and his ideas taken out of context, sometimes to justify policies or economic models that

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