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Kingston Contemporary Issues Lecture 08 Austerity

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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 ...

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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.


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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