Steve Keen’s Debt Watch

This lecture models Minsky's Financial Instability Hypothesis and shows that Minsky's vision of a unstable economy emerge from a simple model derived directly from macroeconomic identities for the employment rate, the wages share of GDP, and the private debt to GDP ratio. This is the fourth of six lectures I recorded that I gave to the Exploring Economics Summer School (https://www.exploring-economics.org/en/summer-academy/details/) held just outside the city of Erfurt in southern Germany (I...

This is the third of six lectures I recorded that I gave to the Exploring Economics Summer School (https://www.exploring-economics.org/en/summer-academy/details/) held just outside the city of Erfurt in southern Germany (I recorded all but the second lecture). The lecture explains Minsky's Financial Instability Hypothesis and models it in my system dynamics program Minsky

This is the second of six lectures I recorded that I gave to the Exploring Economics Summer School (https://www.exploring-economics.org/en/summer-academy/details/) held just outside the city of Erfurt in southern Germany (I recorded all but the second lecture). The lecture continues on the topic of Bank Originated Money and Debt, and explains the macroeconomic significance of admitting the reality that banks create money

This is the first of seven lectures given to the Exploring Economics Summer School (https://www.exploring-economics.org/en/summer-academy/details/) held just outside the city of Erfurt in southern Germany (I recorded all but the second lecture). The topic is the fundamental role of money in a monetary economy--which Neoclassical economics completely misconstrues by modelling capitalism as a barter system.

This was a talk I gave to the inaugural conference for the Right to Work conference in Melbourne on July 21st 2017. I cover a lot of the same topics as in recent talks, but add a focus on Australian data, which I know rather intimately from my own experience of Australia's economic and social history from the 1960s on.

Norway has done a lot of things right, including discovering North Sea oil of course, but unlike the UK, using that to build a sovereign wealth fund, excellent infrastructure, and a diversified industrial base. But it has also accumulated the third highest level of private debt in the world (relative to GDP), and in the last twenty years, real house prices have increased fourfold. It is one of my prime candidates for a financial crisis, which may already be commencing with decelerating...

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I’m tak­ing part in a debate on one of the major top­ics in this year’s elec­tion, Brexit, on May 31st at 7.30pm at Can­ham, 40 Sheen Lane, Lon­don SW14 8LW. The other speak­ers are Frances Cop­pola, and Angus Arm­strong. Frances Cop­pola is an eco­nomic com­men­ta­tor in print and fre­quently on the BBC. Angus Arm­strong is direc­tor of macro-eco­nom­ics at one of the top research insti­tu­tions, the National Insti­tute of Eco­nomic and Social Research founded in 1938. Click...

I'm working with Miguel Guerra and Suzy Dias to produce two illustrated works: one a book of satires of economists "EconComics"; and the other the Money Cartoon, financed by a Kickstarter campaign. In this video we discuss Miguel's illustrations from my paper "WHO* warns of outbreak of virulent new ‘Economic Reality’ virus" (https://www.elgaronline.com/view/journals/roke/5-1/roke.2017.01.08.xml). Miguel and Suzy's visual jokes beautifully complement my satire. The Kickstarter project has...

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