Steve Keen’s Debt Watch

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...

I’m freez­ing this site and mov­ing to both Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/ProfSteveKeen) and a new web­site http://www.profstevekeen.com/. There are sev­eral rea­sons: This site’s signup secu­rity failed, and some­thing like 50,000 bot-users have signed up. It’s just too cum­ber­some in Word­Press to delete them selec­tively from here, so it’s eas­ier to move to a new, clean site; I used to be very active in dis­cus­sions here, but the demands on my time became so exces­sive...

The EU's "Stability and Growth Pact" has as one of its primary rules that “The Member States undertake to abide by the medium-term budgetary objective of positions close to balance or in surplus…” I explore what this objective implies in the context of a model of the economy of "TomDickHaria": what happens to its collective GDP where one member tries to achieve the surplus goal set out in the "Stability and Growth Pact?

I'm preparing for a post-University role as a campaigner for the reform of economics teaching and research (see https://www.patreon.com/ProfSteveKeen), so the invite to speak on the topic of "The future of Economics teaching and research" at a Rethinking Economics conference in Bologna last week was extremely well timed. Unfortunately the recording at the venue itself stuffed up (no sound), and there wasn't time to give the entire talk since, unexpectedly, the great Luigi Pasinetti agreed to...

One of my Patrons posed a very good question to me: in a nutshell, how would I respond to a politician who took my ideas and perverted them for political gain? Here’s Andre’s full query: Hi Steve, thank you, you’ve given me the gift of some of the most important ideas and explanations I’ve come across in my lifetime. I was wondering how you might respond to a politician who misreads your latest book, and then declares: 1.  People will love me, because Steve Keen says I can become...

Help me rebuild economics at https://www.patreon.com/ProfSteveKeen Can we avoid another financial crisis? In 2008, conventional economics led us blindfolded into the greatest economic crisis since the Great Depression. Almost a decade later, with the global economy wallowing in low growth that they can’t explain, mainstream economists are reluctantly coming to realise that their models are useless for understanding the real world. How did mainstream economists not see the crisis...

This is an extensive and intense interview with Peter Kelly of East London Radio. We covered all manner of topics in just on an hour. I won't try to detail all the topics here because there were just too many! I hope you find it an interesting conversation. The sound volume may be a but low; if so, just turn it up. The video is just that shot of my Patreon campaign (https://www.patreon.com/ProfSteveKeen), which as of today has 308 Patrons providing me with US$2665 net per month. This is...

Mark Blyth describes Austerity as a "dangerous idea", and I give a monetary explanation of why Mark is right. The whole vision of "sound finance" is a recipe for the collapse of capitalism. Rather than "saving for a rainy day", austerity causes economic cyclones. The only two sustained periods of government surpluses in the USA's history preceded its two greatest economic crises, the Great Depression and the Great Recession. These were not coincidences.

In 1992, Wynne Godley predicted that the Euro would amplify any future economic downturn into a crisis: "“ If a country or region has no power to devalue, and if it is not the beneficiary of a system of fiscal equalisation, then there is nothing to stop it suffering a process of cumulative and terminal decline leading, in the end, to emigration as the only alternative to poverty or starvation…"