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Olso talk on the failings of academic economics

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Over my 40 year career in economics, economics has declined from a mandatory 40% of most business degrees to just 4%, with that rump due solely to the compulsory economics unit required for certification as an accountant. Let’s reform economics by continuing its self-destruction as a University subject. Accountants, why not develop your own “Economics ...

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Over my 40 year career in economics, economics has declined from a mandatory 40% of most business degrees to just 4%, with that rump due solely to the compulsory economics unit required for certification as an accountant. Let’s reform economics by continuing its self-destruction as a University subject. Accountants, why not develop your own “Economics for Accounting” unit?


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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