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Steve Keen, Phil Dobbie – How much money is too much?

September 26, 2022 Mathew D. Rose 0

Last week Kwasi Kwarteng, the new UK Chancellor, announced a cut in taxes at the same time that the government was stepping in to subsidise rising energy costs for homes and businesses. The cost of […]

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Climate Crisis

Steve Keen, Phil Dobbie – Energy, a free market failure

September 14, 2022 Mathew D. Rose 0

It’s clear, when energy becomes short in supply, free market forces can’t look after all of society. Just the wealthy. That’s why governments are having to step in, propping up an industry that is raking […]

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Steve Keen, Phil Dobbie – Should we be bricking it over BRICs?

August 25, 2022 Mathew D. Rose 0

It seems the whole approach to global trade is being redrawn. Donald Trump wanted to do less trade with China before the pandemic, and now with the Ukraine invasion the west wants to do less […]

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Steve Keen, Phil Dobbie – Is it time to revert to more state ownership?

August 20, 2022 Mathew D. Rose 0

It’s a question being asked more and more. How many of the things that we privatised should be brought back under state control, as energy companies record massive profits, yet those on low incomes are […]

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Steve Keen, Phil Dobbie – Can the price mechanism fix everything?

August 8, 2022 Mathew D. Rose 0

On the Why Curve podcast last week, Phil (and Roger Hearing) spoke to Daniel Gros, Director of the Centre for European Policy Studies, who argued that the gas crisis in Europe will be largely resolved […]

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Economics

Steve Keen, Phil Dobbie – How fast can a magic money tree grow?

July 12, 2022 Mathew D. Rose 0

When British Prime Minister Theresa May said there was no magic money tree she was wrong. There is, but you still have to look after it. What happens if you take the money off the […]

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Economics

Steve Keen, Russel Quirk, Phil Dobbie: Just how sustainable are house prices?

May 3, 2022 Mathew D. Rose 0

Property expert Russell Quirk maintains that housing will always be a good investment and prices will, in the long run, always go up. Perhaps this year inflation will rise faster, so in real terms prices […]

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Steve Keen, Phil Dobbie – Does economic isolationism work?

March 10, 2022 Mathew D. Rose 0

The war in Ukraine looks set to continue for a long time. A 90 minute high-level meeting between the two parties, mediated in Turkey, got nowhere today. Meanwhile, the west is imposing more and more […]

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Economics

Steve Keen, Phil Dobbie – Time for a monetary reset?

February 14, 2022 Mathew D. Rose 0

A society riddled with debt is a society that is reluctant or unable to spend. A lot of that debt has now found its way into housing, with mortgages higher than ever. That’s money we’re […]

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Economics

Steve Keen, Phil Dobbie – How to burst the housing bubble

February 1, 2022 Mathew D. Rose 0

House prices in Australia continue to rise. According to Domain’s House Price Index, prices in Sydney have risen by a third in the last year, to a median value of $1.6 million. Housing affordability has […]

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Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany by Norman Ohler

August 10, 2025 0

Book review by  Branko Milanović As I walked yesterday past the Metropolitan Museum in New York, I saw, among many stands that sell all kinds of trinkets, a table filled with books. One attracted my […]

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The Spectre of State Capitalism by Ilias Alami and Adam D Dixon

July 2, 2025 0

Reviewed by J. D. Evans Alami and Dixon’s The Spectre of State Capitalism is a careful discussion of a topic often dealt with in platitudes and sound-bites. The authors cover uses of ‘state capitalism’ as […]

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