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Ask Steve: Keynesian v Post Keynesian; Austrian v Chicago Schools
Season 1 Episode 231
It’s a first for the Debunking Economics podcast, but we think it’s not a bad idea – a bunch of listener questions to make sure we are all on the sam…
5 years, 9 months ago
Taming Asset Prices
Season 1 Episode 230
The world economy has undergone massive transformation with COVID-19. There will be an even bigger upheaval as climate change takes hold. How do we p…
5 years, 9 months ago
Transitioning an economy
Season 1 Episode 229
The world economy has undergone massive transformation with COVID-19. There will be an even bigger upheaval as climate change takes hold. How do we p…
5 years, 9 months ago
Bad time for a Brexit
Season 1 Episode 228
Despite intensive talks Michel Barnier says there are still clear divisions between the EU and the UK over an agreement post-Brexit, which is less th…
5 years, 9 months ago
Monetary support in a crisis. Does it work?
Season 1 Episode 227
Governments spent up big at the start of the COVID crisis, but they are being a bit more canny with their money right now. Meanwhile, central banks a…
5 years, 10 months ago
Who can create money to fight COVID?
Season 1 Episode 226
There’s a commonly held misconception that the Bank of England is creating extra money and pumping it into circulation through quantitative easing. I…
5 years, 10 months ago
A rebirth of localism
Season 1 Episode 225
Wealth in UK is very concentrated I the southeast of England. In other countries, the structure of administration and banking has seen a more diversi…
5 years, 10 months ago
Introducing People’s Bonds, putting government debt to work
Season 1 Episode 224
Politicians, the media and most economists are obsessed with government debt – now more so than ever. But, as Modern Monetary Theory has shown, there…
5 years, 10 months ago
The practicality of a job guarantee
Season 1 Episode 223
Would a job guarantee resolve the battle between inflation and unemployment? Conventional economists argue that when the labour market is tight – and…
5 years, 11 months ago
The mythical world of NAIRU
Season 1 Episode 222
The US Federal reserve this week indicated that interest rates will remain close to zero through till 2023, at the earliest. Why because inflation is…
5 years, 11 months ago