Debunking Economics - the podcast

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

Episodes

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As the UK Labour party grapples with ways to reduce the advantage of inherited wealth, so we all sta

Most press coverage of Facebook’s announcement of a new global currency by 2020 has been negative. F

Is the EU anti-growth?

2019/6/17

The EU is struggling right now. The Bundesbank has downgraded its 21019 GDP forecast from 1.6% down

Steve Bannister, from the University of Utah, is special guest on this week’s Debunking Economics po

The trade war between the US and China is having massive ramifications on the world economy, but nei

The emergence of the gig economy is one downside of the internet, although you could argue that it g

Scott Morrison, or ScoMo as he is colloquially known, is staying on as Australian Prime minister for

Oil prices are pushing back up to the US$80/barrel mark. If they stay above that level could it driv

It’s a simple question. Why do some countries, rich is resources, still end up poor? Can we blame it

Is a debt jubilee really the best way of ridding the world of near stagnant growth? Would a reset re

There’s an argument that outsourcing to cheaper countries overseas creates job losses and disadvanta

Steve Keen believes the Australian economy is about to tank. If there's a Labor government in charge

House prices are crashing down in Australia, with forecasts for Sydney that they’ll have fallen by 2

In a recent podcast Phil Dobbie suggested that Australia suffers for its relatively small population

Interest rates have been low in most parts of the world for some time now – in many places they are

It seems like we’re due another recession. If you include the dot-com bust then we’ve had significan

Modern Monetary Theory supports the idea that governments, rather than creating debt, can create as

The Austrian School of Economics has been around since the 1870s but was given a new lease of life i

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Fact-checking Freidman

2019/2/11

Milton Friedman influenced a generation of politicians, turning them from Keynesian economics to a m