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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.

Steve Keen’s Debt Watch

Keen2012StudyEconomicsAtUWS

I gave the talk below yesterday at UWS's Open Day, as an intoduction to economics for prospective university students. Preparing it made me reflect on the great good fortune I had to be appointed to UWS. This might evoke a "Huh?" response from the usual suspects on such issues--why be pleased about being appointed to a second-rate University (and in an out-of-the-way place like Sydney to boot)? It's because the Economics & Finance program at UWS has been almost unique amongst economics...

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