Well, on the British bit, you’re quite right. Britain acts like a cheerleader. It’s a vicarious imperialism; they used to lay down the law to lesser breeds. Now the Americans are doing it. It’s that ...

Robert Skidelsky is the author of a three-volume biography of J M Keynes, a cross-bench peer and emeritus professor of political economy at the University of Warwick. His most recent book is Money and ...

A recent scholarly biography evaluates how well his reputation has stood the test of time. The publication of the final volume of Robert Skidelsky's impressive trilogy—John Maynard Keynes: Fighting ...