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Lecture 08 Unconventional Monetary Policy: The Fallacies underlying Quantitative Easing

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Conventional and unconventional monetary policy both suffer from the same flaw: they are based on unrealistic models of how a market economy operates. I give a very fast overview of the (de-)evolution of macroeconomic policy from the Post-War “Keynesian” period through to the Neoclassical ascendancy, before the Global Financial Crisis ushered in both zero reserve ...

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Conventional and unconventional monetary policy both suffer from the same flaw: they are based on unrealistic models of how a market economy operates. I give a very fast overview of the (de-)evolution of macroeconomic policy from the Post-War “Keynesian” period through to the Neoclassical ascendancy, before the Global Financial Crisis ushered in both zero reserve interest rates and Quantitative Easing.


Steve Keen
Steve Keen (born 28 March 1953) is an Australian-born, British-based economist and author. He considers himself a post-Keynesian, criticising neoclassical economics as inconsistent, unscientific and empirically unsupported. The major influences on Keen's thinking about economics include John Maynard Keynes, Karl Marx, Hyman Minsky, Piero Sraffa, Augusto Graziani, Joseph Alois Schumpeter, Thorstein Veblen, and François Quesnay.

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