Published in December 16th, 2009
I gave the following presentation at the 4th Dijon Money conference (December 10-12 2009):
Briefly, my paper explained how various conundrums that have stymied the development of Circuit Theory for 20 years were in fact the result of confusing a stock (an initial loan) with a flow (the economic transactions that loan could initiate over a year). With [...]
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Published in October 23rd, 2009
Thanks to all those Debtwatch readers who made donations to assist with the costs of bringing Michael to Australia for this speaking tour. Roughly A$800 has been raised–I’ve allowed $10 for every donation made since I put that message up to go to Michael’s expenses, and there have been 81 donations (many of more than [...]
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Published in August 19th, 2009
I’ll be speaking at the Australian Museum’s regular monthly talk this coming Tuesday evening on the topic of “The Next Great Depression?”. In a nutshell, the details are:
Title: Museum Australia Monthly Talk
Location: Australian Museum (entry via William Street)
Start Time: 18:30
Date: 2009-08-25
End Time: 20:00
Bookings and prepayment are essential: call 02 9320 6225 to book.
The cost is [...]
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Published in August 12th, 2009
I’m speaking at the Australian Shareholders Association Investor Hour next Tuesday (August 18) at 12pm with the topic “The Market Crash: Origins and Prospects”.
I’ll take a long view of the financial data–going back to 1890–and explain the booms and crashes of stock markets as symptoms of debt bubbles and their bursting. From that point of [...]
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Published in July 19th, 2009
The Whitlam Institute is conducting a series of talks on the financial crisis. The third of these will be held this coming Thursday (July 23rd) at the Riverside Theatre complex in Parramatta (on the corner of Church and Market Streets). The keynote paper is being given by Professor John Quiggin, with myself and Guy Debelle, the Assistant [...]
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Published in June 2nd, 2009
STEVE KEEN and EVAN JONES in conversation with FRANK STILWELL
In this event to celebrate the publication of Political Economy Now!–the history of the Political Economy struggle at Sydney University–Evan Jones, Frank Stilwell and Steve Keen will discuss the struggles inside the university economics departments and their significance, not only for teaching, but for the [...]
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Published in May 14th, 2009
I’ll be speaking at Politics in the Pub on Friday May 29, along with Jacob Saulwick from the SMH. The Location is the Gaelic Club, Level 1 (Tel. 9212 1587) 64 Devonshire Street Surry Hills–just 50 metres or so from the Chalmers Street exit from Central Station.
The topic will be rather apposite to the most recent blog entry: “The [...]
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Published in April 27th, 2009
In May 1973, dissatisfaction over the teaching of economics at the University of Sydney went from a festering sore amongst the staff only to an outright revolt by a minority of the staff, and a majority of the students. In 1975, a new Department of Political Economy had its first intake into Economics I(P). Thirty [...]
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Published in April 16th, 2009
Title: “Crunchtime”: Bringing together the best policy minds to discuss Australia’s future
Location: Trades Hall Auditorium, 4 Goulburn St, Sydney NSW
Link out: Click here
Description: The best policy thinkers from Australia and abroad will come together for “Crunchtime” – Australia’s first progressive think-tank conference.
Tax, social policy, the global financial crisis and climate change will be pulled apart [...]
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Published in April 13th, 2009
Broadcast on March 11 2009 by ABC Radio National Big Ideas
A blog member has kindly produced a transcript of the off-the-cuff talk I gave at this forum. I’ve made minor corrections to the punctuation below, but the text is otherwise as delivered on the night without speaking notes–so there are some grammatical slips. For those [...]
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