Robert Neild

Robert Neild a professor of economics at Cambridge University and a fellow of Trinity College, has held several senior positions in the Civil Service and was the first Director of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute. He is the author of How to make up your mind about the Bomb, published last year.

Letter
In his analysis of the Budget, with much of which I agree, my friend Professor Godley (LRB, 8 April) says that when private savings and private investment return to normal it will be absolutely essential to increase taxation by whatever amount is necessary to get personal disposable income and consumption back to their normal relationship to GDP; and he goes on to say that the tax increase required...

Shell Shock

Margaret Visser, 22 February 1996

In landlocked Zambia,​ then Northern Rhodesia, where I was brought up, oysters were a piece of arcane folklore, one of those memories, precise but inexplicable, of Britain. Oysters were right...

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Unilateralist Options

John Dunn, 6 August 1981

As with the sword or the bow and arrow, making up one’s mind responsibly about the Bomb is not an easy task. For anarchists or pacifists the exercise of violence by state powers throughout...

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