Economics
Pitchfork Economics – Steve Keen: Debunking Economics
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Climate Crisis
Macro n Cheese – Event Horizon: A Climate In Crisis with Steve Keen
If you thought you understood the urgency of climate change, our guest, Professor Steve Keen, will shatter those illusions. We’ll be straight with you, this is not an easy episode to hear – but you […]
Economics
Steve Keen – “What is Money and Where Does it Come From?”
A long, but fun read for the weekend. Do enjoy! Final script & first sketches for Chapter One of “What is Money and Where Does it Come From?” This is the final version of […]
Climate Crisis
Steve Keen – This is not a Natural Disaster. It is Man Made
As we enter 2020 this is what lies ahead for all of us: One climate disaster after the other. Steve Keen on the fires in his native Australia. Do remember, the Australians have voted in […]
Climate Crisis
Steve Keen – Not Coping with Climate Change
The Climate Crisis, so straightforward in theory, becomes truly frightening when you encounter it in reality. Inside an aeroplane, SUV, or shopping centre it seems very distant, if non-existent. Get out in the real world […]
Economics
Steve Keen – Five Big Myths of Classical Economics
It’s taken us a few years to tackle the obvious topic for the Debunking Economics podcast, what are the biggest failings of neoclassical economics. Prof Steve Keen tells Phil Dobbie that it starts on page […]
Economics
Steve Keen: Business cycles – what causes them?
Phil Dobbie and Steve Keen discuss business cycles. What causes them and how can we reduce their impact. As Steve explains, neo-classical economics teaches us that the turns in a cycle are caused by endogenous […]
Climate Crisis
Renegade Inc.: Steve Keen – Lies, damn lies and climate statistics
It will come as no surprise that a recent poll indicated that economists are among the least-trusted professionals. They’ve made blundering mistakes on everything from claiming financial crises can happen to not facing the most […]
Climate Crisis
Steven Keen – ‘4°C of Global Warming is Optimal’ – Even Nobel Prize Winners are Getting Things Catastrophically Wrong
Some places are hotter than others – but what happens when they all heat up? Calvin Hanson/Unsplash, CC BY-SA Steve Keen, UCL William Nordhaus was awarded the 2018 Nobel Prize in Economics for “integrating climate […]
Climate Crisis
Steve Keen – Using Energy to Measure Economic Output, Not Prices
Since the mid-20th century, economic growth has become a sort of Holy Grail for measuring how economies are doing. But there are real problems using this method as it ignores increasing inequality and worsening environmental […]