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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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

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

The Future of Banks

2018/12/18

Fintech companies are all chomping at the bit to take market share away from banks. Right now they’r

Will banks ever behave?

2018/12/18

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