National Politics
Steve Keen: So much for politics
Steve was a candidate in the Auatralian election. Here his report. Read Here
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Economics
Steve Keen, Russel Quirk, Phil Dobbie: Just how sustainable are house prices?
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 […]
Economics
Steve Keen, Phil Dobbie – Does economic isolationism work?
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 […]
Economics
Steve Keen, Phil Dobbie – Time for a monetary reset?
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 […]
Economics
Steve Keen, Phil Dobbie – How to burst the housing bubble
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 […]
Climate Crisis
Steve Keen, Ann Pettifor, Peter Bofinger – A clash of paradigms: update on discussion of Steve’s The New Economics Manifesto
Well that was a fun. This was supposed to be a discussion of my new book The New Economics: A Manifesto. It was that, but it also turned into a slanging match between myself […]
Economics
Steve Keen: Being Economical with the Truth – An Intellectual Biography
” I first published this very incomplete book on November 28th 2019–for reasons that will become obvious if you read the attached PDF. I have added just a few more details in the subsequent two […]
Climate Crisis
Steve Keen – My dummy spit over The Guardian and Don’t Look Up: climate change & 50 years of media degeneration
Just a few opportunistic comments: We began our boycott of the Guardian over two years ago for similar reasons (about the same time David Graeber decided to stop writing for the Guardian). Steve is an […]
Economics
Steve Keen, Phil Dobbie – What’s driving the Great Resignation?
One of the surprises as we emerge from the worst of COVIS (hopefully) is wjaty’s being called the Great Resignation. Even though employment levels in most countries remain below pre-pandemic levels, that’s not stopping those […]
Climate Crisis
UWFB: A Wellbeing Economy with Steve Keen
What kind of politician would want to give every adult $100,000? From employment to housing to banking, Anne & Kev chat with Steve Keen about the sort of policies a progressive economist turned political candidate, […]