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Keen Debunking Economics Oxford 2011 Monbiot Seminar

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This seminar led to George Monbiot’s Guardian feature (http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/oct/10/stop-another-great-depression-debt). As well as outlining my critique of Neoclassical macroeconomics, I explain my credit-based analysis. The discussion at the end about the role of aggregate debt is enlightening in that it shows how most economists can’t comprehend that the aggregate level of debt matters.

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This seminar led to George Monbiot’s Guardian feature (http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/oct/10/stop-another-great-depression-debt). As well as outlining my critique of Neoclassical macroeconomics, I explain my credit-based analysis. The discussion at the end about the role of aggregate debt is enlightening in that it shows how most economists can’t comprehend that the aggregate level of debt matters.


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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