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Will more information drive purer economic outcomes?
Season 1 Episode 100
Economic theory is based on the blatantly false assumption that perfect competition can be achieved when everyone has access to perfect information. …
8 years, 3 months ago
How Marx was wrong on revolution
Season 1 Episode 99
Karl Marx got a lot right, but he was wrong about the need to a revolution. In this podcast Prof Steve Keen explains how, if Marx had followed his ow…
8 years, 3 months ago
Monetary versus fiscal policy – which one works best?
Season 1 Episode 98
Central banks like to control inflation using monetary theory (managing the cost of borrowing) as their way to control inflation and unemployment and…
8 years, 3 months ago
Is it time to break up the Internet giants?
Season 1 Episode 97
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 a…
8 years, 3 months ago
Challenging the distortionary impacts of land value
Season 1 Episode 96
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…
8 years, 4 months ago
Why Russia supports their tough guy
Season 1 Episode 95
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…
8 years, 4 months ago
Is a trade deficit a bad thing?
Season 1 Episode 94
In this podcast series Prof Steve Keen has repeatedly argued the importance of keeping an economy in surplus. But, Alex Howlett, a regular listener a…
8 years, 4 months ago
Is there a case for full reserve banking?
Season 1 Episode 93
One of our podcast listeners, Arjen, asks the question, “Why don't you recommend a full-reserve banking system instead of fractional reserve? There w…
8 years, 4 months ago
Is energy efficiency a race to the top?
Season 1 Episode 92
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 dri…
8 years, 5 months ago
Will skilling up improve productivity?
Season 1 Episode 91
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 Brit…
8 years, 5 months ago