There are the deniers who will argue that mankind has no influence on climate, but worse yet, there are economists who argue the impact will be so small the cost of trying to prevent it will be far greater than the consequences of living with it. That’s the line taken by joint Nobel prizewinner William Nordhaus. In this week’s edition of the Debunking Economics podcast Prof Steve Keen takes Phil Dobbie through some of the spurious arguments and assumptions used by Nordhaus to reach his spurious conclusions. Some of them defy logic. If you offered them in a high school science exam, you’d probably fail.
Economics
Dani Rodrik – From Globalization to Hyper-Globalization and Back
“Where does the backlash against globalization come from? Where is it headed? And what would a better globalization look like?” Dani Rodrik [drodrik.scholar.harvard.edu] is an economist whose research covers globalization, economic growth and development, and […]
Corruption
UNI Europa – How to influence EU law-making
Nice video, but since when was the EU supposed to be democratic? All a bit odd.
Economics
Steve Keen – Talk with Positive Money
This was a fairly “a la carte” presentation of why bank creation of money matters as part of a Positive Money talk at the Hackney Downs Studios on March 14 2018. Steve started with how […]
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