Americans feel as though the only position they can possibly occupy is number one and if they're not number one, well, the end of the world has come.

- 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 more and more, but then what restrains th…

- 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? Because it's hard to translate …

- 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 t…

- 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

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

- 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 unbe…

- 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 set free, that sort …

- 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 can't go very …

- Robert Skidelsky, Baron Skidelsky