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Lecture10: Not Learning From the History of Money

Summary:
The world has failed to learn from previous financial crises because a naive model of money–the “Fractional Reserve Banking” model–dominates how we interpret them, despite this model being wildly at odds with the actual mechanics of banking and with history itself.

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The world has failed to learn from previous financial crises because a naive model of money–the “Fractional Reserve Banking” model–dominates how we interpret them, despite this model being wildly at odds with the actual mechanics of banking and with history itself.


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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