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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

Rachel Reeves: The Economic Fetish

Richard Murphy is the guest this week and is a chartered accountant and a political economist. Rachel Reeves is planning £3bn welfare cuts in Budget, so we will drill down into that and much more this week! https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/ https://businessfilmbooth.podia.com/

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Was Adam Smith a Platonist?

Daniel Sanderson makes his return to the show this week to promote his new book and talk about Adam Smith being a Platonist! So is Daniel saying Adam Smith was a hardened fan of the Greek philosopher Plato???

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Capital without Energy is a Sculpture

With the simple insight that “labour without energy is a corpse, and capital without energy is a sculpture”, Steve Keen realised why economists have failed to properly incorporate the role of energy in production for so long.

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Industrial Policy

DT Cochrane joins the livestream this week to talk about Industrial Policy. Industrial policy is government policy to encourage the development and growth of all or part of the economy in pursuit of some public goal. Historically, it has often focused on the manufacturing sector, militarily important sectors, or on fostering an advantage in new technologies.

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The Limits to Growth

System Dynamics was first developed in the 1950s by Jay W. Forrester at MIT. Initially, it was used to study industrial processes. Forrester's big idea was to use feedback loops and time delays to understand how different parts of a system interact with one another. He published the groundbreaking book Industrial Dynamics in 1961, which laid the foundation for this field. In the 1970s, System Dynamics gained wider attention with the release of the famous book The Limits to Growth, created...

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Top Economist Proves Financial Crisis In 7 Minutes

Join ~10,000 others in downloading my free 'Funny Money' Bundle (2 books, worth $60): new.stevekeenfree.com Engineers, Finance, and IT Pros: Learn 50+ years of Real Economics in only 7 Weeks. Weekly with me. Learn more: apply.stevekeenfree.com -- Who is Dr. Steve Keen? Dr. Steve Keen is an influential economist who has dedicated over 50 years to challenging mainstream economic theories. Since his days as a university student, he has been engaged in a David vs. Goliath battle against...

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