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British historian and economist

Robert Jacob Alexander Skidelsky, Baron Skidelsky, FBA (born 25 April ) is a British economic historian. He is the author of a three-volume, award-winning biography of British economist John Maynard Keynes (–).

Skidelsky read history at Jesus College, Oxford, and is Emeritus Professor of Political Economy at the University of Warwick, England.

Early life

Skidelsky's parents, Boris Skidelsky and Galia Sapelkin, were British subjects of Russian ancestry, Jewish on his father's side and Christian on his mother's.^[1] His father worked for the family firm L.

S. Skidelsky,^[2] which leased the Mulin coalmine,^[3] the largest private coalmine in Manchuria, from the Chinese government in ^[4] Boris had three brothers, one of whom was the British writer and bridge player S.

J. "Skid" Simon (–). In , a factory was built by L. S. Skidelsky in Harbin for obtaining albumin from blood.^[5]

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