The rising impact of the gig economy
Latest UK employment statistics show that more than half of the jobs added in the last year went to the self-employed. Part of this will be entrepreneurs forging their own path, but many will be peopl...
6 Apr 201716min
Can you have a free market for public goods?
It seems there’s a relentless desire to try and apply free market principles to public goods, like health, education, defence and research. Even though they usually operate in a monopolistic environme...
3 Apr 201725min
Do poor people make the rich richer?
Karl Marx argued that the bourgeoisie got rich by creaming their wealth off the proletariat who did all the work. But in this podcast Prof Steve Keen tells Phil Dobbie that it’s not the capitalists wh...
30 Mar 201718min
Does misinformation feed capitalism?
Traders buy and sell based, often, on hearsay. Mum and dad investors can take a punt based on advice from ‘experts’ or from the lies they see in a company prospectus. Whatever the level of investor, y...
27 Mar 201714min
Government debt, when does it become a problem?
In the seventies US government debt was less than 40 percent of GDP. Now, it’s over 100 percent. And the US is still to pass a change to the debt ceiling, which inhibits the government’s ability to sp...
21 Mar 201724min
Which creates growth – supply or demand?
Which comes first, demand or supply? If you want to grow an economy should you offer money or tax cuts to increase demand, or should you fund jobs to create supply and wages. Donald Trump, like many p...
17 Mar 201714min
Is Trump right about currency manipulation?
In this edition of the Debunking Economics podcast we test Donald Trump’s accusations that China, Japan and Germany are manipulating their currencies – something he hates, of course, because it makes ...
7 Mar 201722min
Is Trump right about an import tariff?
Donald Trump has talked about a 20 percent tax on exports from Mexico to help pay for the wall, but has also spoken about a broader tax on all imports. Many fear it’s a form of protectionism that coul...
2 Mar 201715min
