Archive for ‘October, 2011’

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Oct30

Behavioral Finance Lecture 10: Minsky’s Financial Instability Hypothesis

by Steve Keen on October 30th, 2011 at 6:36 pm
Posted In: Debtwatch

In the first half of this lecture, I discuss the economists who influenced Minsky–Marx, Fisher, Schumpeter and Keynes–as a prelude to outlining Minsky’s Financial Instability Hypothesis. (PPT File: Debtwatch Subscribers; CfESI Members).

In the lecture I inadvertently slandered Eugene McCarthy while explaining the McCarthyist “Communist Witch Hunt” days in the USA to my students. It would have …

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Oct27

George Monbiot Seminar

by Steve Keen on October 27th, 2011 at 8:23 am
Posted In: Debtwatch, Syndicate

This is the video of the seminar I gave in Oxford earlier this month that The Guardian’s George Monbiot attended. George then wrote the feature “It’s in all our interests to understand how to stop another Great Depression”, which briefly propelled the new edition of Debunking Economics to No. 89 on Amazon UK’s Bestseller …

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Oct26

Capital Account Interview

by Steve Keen on October 26th, 2011 at 2:36 pm
Posted In: Debtwatch

I’ve just had a great interview with a new Russia Today show, Capital Account. The program’s promo is:
At the the intersection of markets, politics and the global economy is Capital Account with Lauren Lyster. Broadcasting live out of RT America’s studios in Washington DC, Capital Account brings you in-depth analysis and discussion of the …

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Oct25

Why ‘Occupy Wall Street’ Makes Sense: Lessons Economists Could Learn from the 99%

by antifriedmanitejoe on October 25th, 2011 at 10:54 pm
Posted In: Debtwatch

 

(guest blog) by Joe Mcivor

Moral Majority?

Back in May of this year, Austin Mackell wrote in The Guardian that the Arab Spring revolutions represented “a rebellion not just against local dictators, but against the global neoliberal programme they were implementing with such gusto in their countries”. He cited Egypt in particular as an example …

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Oct23

Occupy Sydney rally

by Steve Keen on October 23rd, 2011 at 10:45 pm
Posted In: Debtwatch

This is a slightly longer video of the Saturday rally of Occupy Sydney–its last public event before it was shut down. It includes the Welcome to Country, the 3 MCs, and a statement of Occupy Sydney’s objectives, as well as my talk–which begins 10 minutes in to this video.

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Oct23

Australia: beautiful one day, police state the next

by Steve Keen on October 23rd, 2011 at 3:40 pm
Posted In: Debtwatch

I was disgusted to learn this morning that Sydney had joined Melbourne in being one of the very few cities around the world to evict the Occupy protesters. I’m glad at least that I got a chance to speak at yesterday’s rally, before the police action at 5am this morning.

I had hoped that Sydney would display …

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Oct21

Occupy Sydney Rally Photos

by Steve Keen on October 21st, 2011 at 3:15 pm
Posted In: Debtwatch

As noted in the previous post, I’ve been invited to speak at the Occupy Sydney rally tomorrow (from 12pm). I attended last week’s rally as an observer, when I would say about 2,000 people were in attendance. Below are some of the photos I took of the event.

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Oct21

Speaking at Occupy Sydney, Saturday 12pm

by Steve Keen on October 21st, 2011 at 2:34 pm
Posted In: Debtwatch

I am one of several speakers tomorrow at Occupy Sydney (there are a number of websites on this topic; Occupy Sydney; Occupy Australia). According to the organisers:
The event will begin at 12.00pm and will begin with a welcome to country from an indigenous representative followed by some introductions etc from the three MC’s and then …

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Oct20

Behavioral Finance Lecture 09: Modeling Endogenous Money

by Steve Keen on October 20th, 2011 at 1:04 pm
Posted In: Debtwatch

In this lecture I continue the development of the QED model of a pure credit economy began in the last lecture, including modelling production and developing a pricing equation to produce a combined monetary-physical model. (see NOTE below if you can’t see this video in your browser)

Powerpoint Slides (QED Files Free download; DebtWatch Members: …

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Oct19

Economics has met the enemy, and it is economics

by Steve Keen on October 19th, 2011 at 1:48 pm
Posted In: Debtwatch

That is the title of a feature in the Canadian newspaper The Globe and Mail that a correspondent has just brought to my attention. It’s not an earth-shattering article, as my correspondent observed, but it is remarkable to see articles like this turning up in the mainstream media. The author Tra Basen observes at one …

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