Monetary versus fiscal policy – which one works best?
Central banks like to control inflation using monetary theory (managing the cost of borrowing) as their way to control inflation and unemployment and avoid recessions. Whereas Keynes argues that gover...
2 Maj 201831min
Is it time to break up the Internet giants?
With Mark Zuckerberg being probed by the US government recently, and similar hearings being held in the UK, there’s been a lot of discussion lately about whether the Internet giants wield too much pow...
25 Apr 201829min
Challenging the distortionary impacts of land value
Land, is of course, heavily constrained. In this podcast Phil Dobbie asks Professor Steve Keen whether enough value is placed on it and the influence it has on the broader economy. Housing speculation...
17 Apr 201831min
Why Russia supports their tough guy
It’s hard to support everything Vladamir Putin does – he probably was involved in the attack in Salisbury. If not, there are lots of other violations of human rights we can point to. But he does have ...
6 Apr 201841min
Is a trade deficit a bad thing?
In this podcast series Prof Steve Keen has repeatedly argued the importance of keeping an economy in surplus. But, Alex Howlett, a regular listener and Patreon supporter, asks why this might be. He su...
3 Apr 201826min
Is there a case for full reserve banking?
One of our podcast listeners, Arjen, asks the question, “Why don't you recommend a full-reserve banking system instead of fractional reserve? There would be much less debt in such a system and a small...
27 Mars 201839min
Is energy efficiency a race to the top?
We’ve talked a lot on the Debunking Economics podcast about how energy is the only real driver of an economy, so the performance of an economy is driven by the availability of the resource and how eff...
20 Mars 201828min
Will skilling up improve productivity?
Britain’s productivity levels are 17 percent lower than the rest of the G7. A French worker could take Friday off and still beat the output of a British worker. So, does that mean we mean a more educa...
14 Mars 201829min
