Robert and Edward Skidelsky have written a new book for our times, How Much Is Enough? The Love of Money, and the Case for the Good Life, which is published today. In their own words: ‘it is the story of… how we came to be ensnared by the dream of progress with purpose, riches without end.’ But what have this father son combination been reading while penning this and their other books? The answer is: rather more than just John Maynard Keynes.
Robert Skidelsky
1) What are you reading at the moment?
Laurent Binet, HHhH
2) As a child, what did you read under the covers?
J.B.Priestley, The Good Companions
Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage
3) Has a book ever made you cry, and if so which one?
As a child, F.W. Farrar, Eric, or Little by Little — uncontrollably.
4) You are about to be put into solitary confinement for a year and allowed to take three books.
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