Debunking Economics - the podcast

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

Episodes

Total: 436

Free broadband – Corbyn’s bad connection
2019/11/18

Jeremy Corbyn pledged over the weekend that, if he was to become Prime Minister, he would deliver fr

What can we do about pay gaps?
2019/11/12

For all the best efforts we have seen over recent years, the gender pay gap in most countries remain

Brexit - a good idea or not?
2019/11/3

Steve Keen and Phil Dobbie had very different ideas about Brexit a few years ago. Now they both agre

Making an MMT Green New Deal Global
2019/10/27

One of the constraints of MMT is that to create more government money you need to have a sovereign c

Can MMT pay for a Green New Deal?
2019/10/21

Larry Randall Wray has suggested Modern Monetary Theory should be applied to create a Green New Deal

Will Trump ever win his trade war?
2019/10/12

There’s a glimmer of hope that the US China trade war will ease a little. In other words, it won’t g

Can We Afford McDonnell’s Four Day Week?
2019/10/7

At the Labour party conference recently, UK Shadow Chancellor outlined the policy aim of reducing th

Can MMT work in countries with a trade deficit?
2019/9/30

Modern monetary theory tells us that we shouldn’t worry about government debt – that governments can

The insignificance of gold
2019/9/23

There were times when men would leave their families to head for the hills and pan for gold. There w

The false economies of private health
2019/9/16

According to the World Health Organisation, Antibiotic resistance is rising to dangerously high leve

Should we have tighter controls on money supply?
2019/9/9

Regular listeners will know that most money in circulation is created, bot by central banks, but by

Preparing for an entrepreneurial Britain
2019/9/2

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Are we on the verge of a global recession?
2019/8/27

The markets are concerned that we are on the verge of a global recession. How do they know? Not from

What went wrong at Bretton Woods. Time for another meeting?
2019/8/19

A little over 75 years ago World powers signed the Bretton Woods agreement, that saw the US dollar a

An economic model that includes energy
2019/8/12

Economics is still built around the age-old factors of production – land, labour, capital and, perha

Freeports – right for now or a spin on an outdated idea?
2019/8/5

Boris Johnson wants to introduce free ports in the UK. International trade secretary Liz Truss has s

Has Monetary Policy Had Its Day?
2019/7/31

As the US Federal Reserve prepares to cut rates today, and the European Central Bank grapples with t

The future’s solar, finance is the problem
2019/7/24

In a recent Debunking Economics podcast Steve Bannister explained his climate modelling and how exis

Good debt, bad debt
2019/7/15

Is debt good or bad? Or does it depend on the type of debt? One of our listeners, Roy Langston, wrot

Is there a better way of funding retirement?
2019/7/8

Just after WW2 the UK government’s spending on pensions in the UK amounted to about 2 percent of GDP