Debunking Economics - the podcast

Australians talk of giving everyone a fair go. But it has different meanings for different people. For some, it implies freeing up the ability for people to get on with making a dollar without governm...

1 Aug 201729min

Most of us tend to have a vague notion of what Keynes stood for. Why, even neo-classic economists seem to be using his theories to rescue the economy from the ravages of the global financial crisis. S...

25 Jul 201723min

Okay, this is a deliberately provocative title, but it relates to how the increase in two income households hasn’t necessarily made us better off. Hasn’t it simply reduced real wages and increased ass...

17 Jul 201725min

Governments everywhere are preoccupied with keeping their spending under control. We are conditioned into thinking about the massive levels of interest being paid on the money that our governments owe...

11 Jul 201732min

The G20 is meeting in Berlin right now. With expectations of any constructive outcomes set to low, maybe there’s a better way forward. In this edition of the Debunking Economics podcast Phil Dobbie an...

7 Jul 201719min

In this edition Prof Steve Keen explains to Phil Dobbie how tax levels are really more to do with the government controlling the level of inflation in the economy and less to do with raising revenue t...

4 Jul 201725min

The world’s Central Bankers have been meeting up in Portugal this week and seem to have colluded on the idea of raising interest rates sometime soon. It looks like the UK, Europe and Canada are in on ...

30 Jun 201717min

Automation, it seems, is taking its toll. For example, based on its turnover Amazon employs less than half the staff levels of the broader retail sector – and they are driving efficiency gains all the...

26 Jun 201727min