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Lecture 3 Why Economists Disagree: The Austrians. Real knowledge, Disequilibrium & Credit

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The Austrian school of thought is closely related to the Neoclassical mainstream–in that it shares its utilitarian theory of value, accepts basic supply and demand analysis, and sees capitalism as generally tending towards equilibrium. But it is also highly critical of the mainstream for the absurd assumptions about individual knowledge that it is willing to ...

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The Austrian school of thought is closely related to the Neoclassical mainstream–in that it shares its utilitarian theory of value, accepts basic supply and demand analysis, and sees capitalism as generally tending towards equilibrium. But it is also highly critical of the mainstream for the absurd assumptions about individual knowledge that it is willing to make to preserve its equilibrium-oriented mathematical approach. It sees capitalism’s strengths as how it encourages innovation, which is an equilibrium-disturbing process, and regards money as being both integral to capitalism and the primary source of economic cycles.


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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