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Debunking Economics - the podcast

Economist Steve Keen talks to Phil Dobbie about the failings of the neoclassical economics and how i

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The collapse of Silicon Valley Bank last week can be put down to two things – first a management tea

At the end of this week’s mega-long episode of the Debunking Economics Podcast Steve Keen admits he

This week on Debunking Economics Phil and Steve are joined by Richard McGahey, author of a new book

They are pushing up interest rates thew world over because monetary theory dictates that this is the

What’s the right wage?

2023/2/15

The UK is gripped by strikes right now, but they are not the only ones. All over the world public an

Over the weekend Liz Truss was singing her own praises, with a front-page article in the UK’s Sunday

For most of us liquidity is an easy concept to understand. Have we got enough cash to pay our bills?

An end to capitalism?

2023/1/25

It would be a bold prediction to say that capitalism is on the way out. Nor should it be. It has pro

Opportunity Cost and MMT

2023/1/18

Conventional economics is built around the idea of opportunity cost. If there is a limited resource

2023 and all that

2023/1/11

After a disastrous couple of years, can things get any worse in 2023? Steve Keen and Phil Dobbie loo

Most people think economics can be summarised in just two words – supply and demand. Where they cros

This week, another economist that has influenced Steve Keen’s thinking; the Austrian born economist

Bill Phillips & His Curve

2022/12/21

Bill Phillips, rightly or wrongly, has a lot to answer for, because his work is drawn on by central

We continue our series looking at economists who influenced Steve Keens thinking. This week it’s Ame

Irving Fisher was an American economist whose book The Purchasing Power of Money looked at the relat

The Debt Myth

2022/11/30

How widespread is the idea that one person's debt is another person's credit and therefore has no im

What would Keynes do now?

2022/11/23

His answer to Great depression was that we should spend our way out. But now we have rampant inflati

During the last big financial crisis there was a lot of talk about the work of Hyman Minsky. Even Ja

In a recent podcast Steve Keen claimed that the law of thermodynamics dictates that we can no longer

Last week on the Debunking Economics podcast Phil and Steve talked about the likely imposition of Au