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Launching Kingston University’s Rethinking Economics group

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As Head of the School of Economics, History and Politics at Kingston University, I was delighted to be asked to launch Kingston’s Rethinking Economics group. I am sure this is the first time that a Head of School has done this. A great crowd turned up–over 100 people including many first year students. I hope ...

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As Head of the School of Economics, History and Politics at Kingston University, I was delighted to be asked to launch Kingston’s Rethinking Economics group. I am sure this is the first time that a Head of School has done this. A great crowd turned up–over 100 people including many first year students. I hope that they keep us on our toes as we deliver a pluralist education in economics at Kingston University. And if you’re at a UK University that doesn’t provide a pluralist education in economics, then consider coming to Kingston in your second year via Release during Clearance. Warning–contains scary photograph of me with long hair…


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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