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Debunking economics (with Steve Keen)

Debunking economics (with Steve Keen)

FromPitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer


Debunking economics (with Steve Keen)

FromPitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer

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Length:
37 minutes
Released:
Feb 18, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

We’re continuing the conversation about reimagining capitalism this week with Professor Steve Keen, one of the biggest names in alternative economics. What would society look like if we stopped believing in long-held economic fictions like meritocracy and the equilibrium system? 

Steve Keen has spent his career working to develop an alternative, realistic economics. He is the author of Debunking Economics and the designer of Minsky, an open source dynamic modelling program that makes it possible for anyone to build and understand monetary models of the economy. He was one of the first economists to correctly predict the 2008 financial crisis and its causes. 

Twitter: @ProfSteveKeen

Steve Keen’s work is funded through Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ProfSteveKeen


Make sure you check out Majority.FM’s AM Quickie, the morning news podcast for progressives in the know: amquickie.com


Further reading: 

Debunking Economics: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10303367-debunking-economics---revised-and-expanded-edition

Minsky download: https://sourceforge.net/projects/minsky/

Inequality, Debt, and Credit Stagnation: https://www.debtdeflation.com/blogs/2016/07/05/inequality-debt-and-credit-stagnation/

Website: http://pitchforkeconomics.com/
Twitter: @PitchforkEcon
Instagram: @pitchforkeconomics
Nick’s twitter: @NickHanauer
Released:
Feb 18, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

Any society that allows itself to become radically unequal eventually collapses into an uprising or a police state—or both. Join venture capitalist Nick Hanauer and some of the world’s leading economic and political thinkers in an exploration of who gets what and why. Turns out, everything you learned about economics is wrong. And if we don’t do something about rising inequality, the pitchforks are coming.