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 of particular proclivity in human nature was set free to do its best and its worst. Politicians and regulators are consumers of ideas. They never have any ideas of their own, it would take too much like hard work to develop ideas, you get them off menus and you pick the ones that suit you. Financial services were set free to go beyond their rightful place, a place by which they have been restrained in the past.
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
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
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…
There's no automatic mechanism in a market system that reconciles the desire to save and the desire to invest. And therefore, the government has to s… - 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 government has to s…
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
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…
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
The psychology of the saver and the psychology of the investor is very closely connected with Keynes' distinction between risk and uncertainty. When …
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
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 …
Hayek became in his later years the dominant intellectual influence of the last quarter of the twentieth century. - Robert Skidelsky, Baron Skidelsky
Hayek became in his later years the dominant intellectual influence of the last quarter of the twentieth century.
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
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 …
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
Bankers were scapegoats for the whole Reagan-Thatcher era, which exalted finance and humbled industry, and which had allowed the fruits of progress t…
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