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The Population-House Price Myth

Summary:
The property lobby consistently argues that the driving force beneath rising house prices is rising population. Even a cursory examination of the data shows that this is not true. The real force is accelerating mortgage debt, as I’ll explain in a screenshow presentation to be uploaded shortly

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The property lobby consistently argues that the driving force beneath rising house prices is rising population. Even a cursory examination of the data shows that this is not true. The real force is accelerating mortgage debt, as I’ll explain in a screenshow presentation to be uploaded shortly


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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