Why Steve Keen is voting Liberal in the Aussie election
Steve Keen believes the Australian economy is about to tank. If there's a Labor government in charge they will be blamed for the mismanagement of the economy. Better that label is stuck on the Liberal...
15 Apr 201934min
Fixing housing affordability
House prices are crashing down in Australia, with forecasts for Sydney that they’ll have fallen by 20% from their peak by the end of this year, with the possibility that they will fall much further be...
11 Apr 201932min
Getting out of the monopoly rut
In a recent podcast Phil Dobbie suggested that Australia suffers for its relatively small population size, which restricted competition and meant people were paying higher prices. Peter Y, a listener,...
4 Apr 201940min
Interest rates – have they anywhere to go?
Interest rates have been low in most parts of the world for some time now – in many places they are actually negative. So, what do central banks do next time there’s a global economic downturn which, ...
18 Mar 201931min
The next big recession – when, where and how
It seems like we’re due another recession. If you include the dot-com bust then we’ve had significant downturns every 78-9 years since the 1970s. So, even though it feels like we haven’t recovered fro...
11 Mar 201937min
Is Modern Monetary Theory too closed for open economies
Modern Monetary Theory supports the idea that governments, rather than creating debt, can create as much money as they see fit to invest in the economy and create jobs. Thar works just fine in a close...
4 Mar 201930min
Were Austrian economists wrong to have purpose?
The Austrian School of Economics has been around since the 1870s but was given a new lease of life in the 1970s by Frederich Hayek. In this week’s podcast Phil Dobbie asks Prof Steve Keen about some o...
25 Feb 201933min
Nordhaus’ Climate Model Debunked
Nobel prize winning economist William Nordhaus has modelled how climate change will impact the economy. Steve reckons its part of the reason we don't take climate change seriously. It vastly underest...
18 Feb 201924min
