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With the world on the brink of yet another steep recession, and with ecological disaster looming, we can no longer afford the luxury of an economic policy which concentrates on the fight against inflation, leaves unemployment to emergency measures, distribution of wealth and income to the market, and ignores ecological challenges.
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Robert Skidelsky, Professor emeritus, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK.
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Skidelsky, R. Economic Recovery in the Age of COVID-19. Intereconomics 55, 345–349 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10272-020-0929-6
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