Debunking Economics - the podcast

Economist Steve Keen talks to Phil Dobbie about the failings of the neoclassical economics and how i

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There seems to be an assumption by many that the crisis we have experienced will quickly bounce back

There’s one clear difference between this recession and almost all those that have gone before. This

40 world leaders go together virtually this week, for a bit of an impromptu climate summit called by

Janet Yellen has repeatedly called for countries to raise their corporate taxes, so they are in-line

You might have thought that digital currencies were the domain of cryptocurrency evangelists, and we

Last week we looked at how economics text books that taught us the law of demand, and how fundamenta

Steve Keen believes the way we look at economics is wrong from the ground up. Take the demand curve,

Post Brexit we were promised a global Britain. It’s got off to a bad start with a massive fall in ex

The UK chose to respond to a global pandemic by reducing the amount of money given in foreign aid. Y

The UK won’t see an end to lockdown measures until July, but after that the hope of many is that the

Australians can no longer turn to Facebook for news. From today they have banned Aussies from postin

In 2019 Greta Thunberg spoke to politicians at the UN Climate Week, saying they were promoting fairy

There was a bit of argy-bargy on the share markets in America last week, when a bunch of day traders

Remember a time when central banks pretended to be independent, insulated from day-to-day politics?

Last weekend, Lord Sumption, was talking about why a lockdown harms everyone when the virus mainly i

One big problem as we emerge out of the COVID crisis is, even if we have money we’ll be reluctant to

The Science of Trumpism

2021/1/8

If you follow the science of Cliodynamics, the events unfolded in the United States the last few yea

Earlier this year Phil Dobbie asked Steve keen for his predictions for 2020. Without a whiff of COVI

As the US government argues over whether to spend almost another $1 trillion to stimulate an economy

Would the UK be better off with tariffed trade with Europe? The public discourse seems to be focused