Robert Skidelsky, Baron Skidelsky

You do just have to go back to moral philosophy and you've got to say, okay, there is greed, people do want…

— Robert Skidelsky, Baron Skidelsky

Bankers were scapegoats for the whole Reagan-Thatcher era, which exalted finance and humbled industry, and which had allowed the fruits of progress…

— Robert Skidelsky, Baron Skidelsky

It's not enough say, "Look, bankers were immensely greedy and that they committed lots of frauds." I mean, that's not, they were…

— Robert Skidelsky, Baron Skidelsky

There's no automatic mechanism in a market system that reconciles the desire to save and the desire to invest. And therefore, the…

— Robert Skidelsky, Baron Skidelsky

When you think of everything in terms of just money, then almost nothing is enough. I mean, how much money is enough?…

— Robert Skidelsky, Baron Skidelsky

The psychology of the saver and the psychology of the investor is very closely connected with Keynes' distinction between risk and uncertainty.…

— Robert Skidelsky, Baron Skidelsky

What would've happened, do you think, had the government not intervened in October 2008? The catastrophe to the economy would've been absolutely…

— Robert Skidelsky, Baron Skidelsky

Investors are trying to work out some risk premiere that have some correspondence with actual risks. But they don't, they're not, they…

— Robert Skidelsky, Baron Skidelsky

Hayek became in his later years the dominant intellectual influence of the last quarter of the twentieth century.

— Robert Skidelsky, Baron Skidelsky

Americans feel as though the only position they can possibly occupy is number one and if they're not number one, well, the…

— Robert Skidelsky, Baron Skidelsky