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Keen 2015 Betty Sinclair Talk: complexity economics as the alternative to Neoliberalism & Marxism

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This was my first talk at this annual event for community and union activists, which is organized by Trademark Belfast (http://www.trademarkbelfast.com/). I gave a rather free-form presentation covering my own period as a conference organizer for trade unions, the reasons the Left comprehensively lost the intellectual battle with the Right in the 1970s, and the ...

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This was my first talk at this annual event for community and union activists, which is organized by Trademark Belfast (http://www.trademarkbelfast.com/). I gave a rather free-form presentation covering my own period as a conference organizer for


trade unions, the reasons the Left comprehensively lost the intellectual battle with the Right in the 1970s, and the need for


progressive thinkers to develop a realistic analysis of capitalism, rooted neither in the barren “Labor Theory of Value” Marxism


of the past, nor the Neoliberal delusions of the present.


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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