Has the last year shown us how to save the planet?
In 2019 Greta Thunberg spoke to politicians at the UN Climate Week, saying they were promoting fairy tales of eternal economic growth. The next year we saw GDP in advanced economies fall by around fiv...
9 Feb 202131min
Who were the bad guys in the Redditt Wall Street Rebellion?
There was a bit of argy-bargy on the share markets in America last week, when a bunch of day traders set to take on Wall Street, particularly the hedge funds who were shorting stock on Gamestop, among...
3 Feb 202132min
Is central bank independence a thing of the past?
Remember a time when central banks pretended to be independent, insulated from day-to-day politics? That had all but disappeared before COVID, but the pandemic was the final nail in the coffin of cent...
27 Jan 202135min
The value of pensioners in a COVID age
Last weekend, Lord Sumption, was talking about why a lockdown harms everyone when the virus mainly ills people who are old or who have with debilitating conditions. He suggested we shouldn’t have lock...
21 Jan 202130min
Can we Wörgl our way out of this?
One big problem as we emerge out of the COVID crisis is, even if we have money we’ll be reluctant to spend it. So, how can the government get us to step up our spending? The answer, perhaps, lies in A...
13 Jan 202128min
The Science of Trumpism
If you follow the science of Cliodynamics, the events unfolded in the United States the last few years have been entirely predictable. This week Prof Steve Keen talks to Phil Dobbie about the work of ...
8 Jan 202110min
Steve Keen’s Predictions for 2021
Earlier this year Phil Dobbie asked Steve keen for his predictions for 2020. Without a whiff of COVID-19 IN THE AIR, Steve talked of a capitalist economy on government life support. On that he was pre...
30 Des 202043min
Are we overstimulating the economy with the COVID-19 response?
As the US government argues over whether to spend almost another $1 trillion to stimulate an economy ravaged by COVID-19, and the UK government likely to increase public sector borrowing by GBP215 bil...
23 Des 202029min
