Economist Steve Keen talks to Phil Dobbie about the failings of the neoclassical economics and how i
The world’s population is growing – and we seem to be feeling it a bit in almost every part of the w
Did your mum and dad teach you to save money rather than borrow? It was better to have cash than be
Are we trying to apply theory developed for production-based economies, on economies driven by knowl
The European economy seems to have found itself in sharp reverse, possibly heading into a continent-
There’s a theory, in many conventional government and economic circles, that lowering capital gains
Back in the forties Dutch economist Petrus Johannes Verdoorn argued that people became more producti
Theresa May has been busy setting rules on UK migration after Brexit. Freedom of movement was, of co
Fintech companies are all chomping at the bit to take market share away from banks. Right now they’r
Banks were bailed out during the financial crisis in 2008. In the US the Treasury bought billions in
House prices have started to fall in Australia. In Sydney they’ve fallen 10 percent in a year – Stev
One for our listeners, Pieter Verhoeven, suggested we look at steady state economics and the post-gr
According to NASA ninety-seven percent of climate scientists believe that climate change is the resu
In the UK we’ve privatised the railways, coach companies, the banks, power, airports, Royal Mail, wa
Multinationals have an uncanny ability to avoid tax. In this edition, Phil Dobbie and Steve Keen tal
President Trump looks set to step up the tariff battle against China as he embarks on the fruitless
John McDonnell has proposed that all companies over a certain size would be required to transfer equ
A few weeks back Jean Claude Juncker suggested that the Euro should be established as a reserve curr
Today William D Nordhaus and Paul Romer were announced as joint winners of the Noble Prize for Econo
It’s often argued, by politicians and business owners, that higher wages cut into company profits, w
One of the reasons people voted for Brexit was to “take control of our borders”. Around the world, w
