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

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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

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