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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

Episodes

Total: 462

The Tragedy of the Commons is a concept developed by William Forster Lloyd one hundred and fifty yea

Central bankers and economists have often used the Phillips curve to determine the path of inflation

Can we beat stagflation?

2022/5/23

Stagflation is that worrying combination of rises prices in a stagnant economy. Central banks believ

BP made $12.8 billion profit last year, $4.1 billion on that in the fourth quarter. In the first thr

The supply chain disruption from COVID, and the imperialist ambitions of Vladimir Putin have demonst

Property expert Russell Quirk maintains that housing will always be a good investment and prices wil

The UK the Chancellor’s wife Akshata Murty was in the news a couple of weeks ago when it was reveale

Economists like to think that there’s an equilibrium that the economy is either briefly moving away

The inflation genie is out of the bottle. Can we get it back in there before it does too much damage

Energy prices are going through the roof. They were before Ukraine erupted, but with Russia the worl

The EU has talked about issuing new bonds to protect its eastern borders against Russia and to prepa

The war in Ukraine looks set to continue for a long time. A 90 minute high-level meeting between the

Crazy Taxes

2022/3/4

Most people agree that Rishi Sunak is crazy to introduce new taxes on the British public when inflat

It seems Putin will not be satisfied until he has a puppet leader installed in Ukraine to replace wh

A society riddled with debt is a society that is reluctant or unable to spend. A lot of that debt ha

Last year Andrew Bailey, the Bank of England Governor, spoke optimistically about how the UK economy

House prices in Australia continue to rise. According to Domain’s House Price Index, prices in Sydne

Who controls interest?

2022/1/24

Central banks control the interest rate through the decisions of their various monetary committees.

One of the surprises as we emerge from the worst of COVID (hopefully) is what’s being call

Even the most ardent supporters of small government will agree there are times when governments need