Economist Steve Keen talks to Phil Dobbie about the failings of the neoclassical economics and how i
Most of us tend to have a vague notion of what Keynes stood for. Why, even neo-classic economists se
Okay, this is a deliberately provocative title, but it relates to how the increase in two income hou
Governments everywhere are preoccupied with keeping their spending under control. We are conditioned
The G20 is meeting in Berlin right now. With expectations of any constructive outcomes set to low, m
In this edition Prof Steve Keen explains to Phil Dobbie how tax levels are really more to do with th
The world’s Central Bankers have been meeting up in Portugal this week and seem to have colluded on
Automation, it seems, is taking its toll. For example, based on its turnover Amazon employs less tha
The EU and IMF have just bailed out Greece again, so it can avoid defaulting on the interest payment
It’s the catch cry for those who like to spread fear – Corbyn in power would take Britain back to th
In the UK salaries are now rising slower than inflation – which means living standards are going bac
Professor Steve Keen has predicted a house price crash in Australia before, but this time he is more
UKIP released its manifesto this week. It’s a glossy production with a range of arguments designed t
Conventional neoclassic economics assumes the economy will always arrive at an equilibrium, yet cent
A Debunking Economics listener asked for a podcast on the role of Shadow Banks. In particular, he wa
Economists have always seen wealth as a function of capital and labour. In effect, people and machin
Imagine if shares had a use by date. If you pass the shares issued by a company on to a secondary ma
A big chunk of the trades that happen in shares are sold short. In other words, the trader takes a p
London and the southeast accounts for a third of the UK’s gross disposable household income. The res
Modern Monetary Theory states that’s, because the government of a country is the monopoly supplier o
Figures out in the US last week showed the unemployment rate had dropped to just 4.5 percent, a long
