Will Hutton's book "Them and Us: Politics, Greed and Inequality - Why We Need a Fair Society is reviewed by Robert Skidelsky in the Guardian.co.UK, September 25, 2010.
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- Will Hutton has written a weekly column for more than 15 years: six years at the Guardian and nine years at the Observer. His day job for the last six years has been as chief executive of the Work Foundation, an independent, not for dividend research-based consultancy that is one of the most influential voices on work, workplace and employment issues in Britain. He joined the Guardian as economics editor in 1990, before moving to the Observer as editor in 1996 and later editor-in-chief. Will has written several bestselling economic books, including The World We're In (2002) , The State We're In (1996), The State to Come (1997), The Stakeholding Society (1999). He is a member of the Scott Trust, a governor of the London School of Economics and, a school governor and a visiting professor at Bristol University.
- Robert Skidelsky (Lord Skidelsky) is Emeritus Professor of Political Economy at the University of Warwick. His three volume biography of the economist John Maynard Keynes (1983, 1992, 2000) received numerous prizes, including the Lionel Gelber Prize for International Relations and the Council on Foreign Relations Prize for International Relations. He is the author of the The World After Communism (1995) (American edition called The Road from Serfdom). He was made a life peer in 1991, and was elected Fellow of the British Academy in 1994. He is chairman of the Governors of Brighton College. He writes a monthly column for Project Syndicate, "Against the Current", which is syndicated in newspapers all over the world. His account of the current economic crisis, Keynes: The Return of the Master, was published by Penguin Allen Lane in September 2009.
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