Does QE help the poor as well as the rich?
The US Federal Reserve is getting rid of it, the European Central Bank has talked about it and could go next. Quantitative Easing, it seems, is falling out of favour. But was it doing any good any way...
21 Sep 201718min
The Crisis Ten Years On
It’s 10 years since the start of the global financial crisis, when the UK saw a run on the Northern Rock Building Society. A year letter the contagion spread, with banks falling like flies on both sid...
15 Sep 201723min
Should We Care About Exec Pay?
The UK Prime Minister has made noises about reining-in executive pay. Phil Dobbie asks Professor Steve Keen whether high executive salaries are really such a problem. If somebody can demand such a hig...
10 Sep 201733min
Fixing the Retirement Crisis
Funding retirement seems to be a global issue. Individual pensions often fall short of the required amount and governments struggle so much with the liability of future pension costs that they keep pu...
6 Sep 201718min
Bitcoin and the Future of Money
Bitcoin was an interesting development in the history of money – a currency created from an algorithm. In this edition of the Debunking Economics podcast Professor Steve Keen explains to Phil Dobbie h...
30 Aug 201728min
Will cheaper energy drive growth?
In previous podcasts Professor Steve Keen has said the availability of energy is the key driver of growth. It fuelled the industrial revolution and inhibits growth in societies without sufficient acce...
17 Aug 201728min
The Perils of Population Growth
Do we need population growth to enjoy economic growth? Phil Dobbie puts the question to Professor Steve Keen, who argues it’s not necessary and it’s a misnomer that cannot be sustained. Yet many count...
14 Aug 201727min
Is Economics a Science? Really?
There’s an argument that economics can never be science because it involves the behaviour of humans. You can’t apply empirical rules in the way you do with physical sciences. In this episode of the De...
8 Aug 201728min
