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A bit of an Autobiography on Energy

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I gave this talk to YSI members attending the 17th UNCTAD debt conference, at which I was one of the speakers (along with Jan Kregel: the speeches are available here: http://unctad.org/divs/gds/dmfas/what/Pages/Debt-Conference-2017.aspx). It was a hastily organised talk, and I started it with a lengthy biographical exposition on why I led a student revolt against the ...

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I gave this talk to YSI members attending the 17th UNCTAD debt conference, at which I was one of the speakers (along with Jan Kregel: the speeches are available here: http://unctad.org/divs/gds/dmfas/what/Pages/Debt-Conference-2017.aspx).



It was a hastily organised talk, and I started it with a lengthy biographical exposition on why I led a student revolt against the teaching of economics at Sydney University in 1973, my initial work on Marx’s theory of value, and how this has finally led to my energy-aware production function.



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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