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This is an extended interview with Steve Keen, one of the few economists in the world that understands how the economy actually works, and perhaps the only economist in the world that understands peak oil, climate change, and the 2nd law of thermodynamics. Steve explains what is going on, and offers a novel solution that might be optimal for mitigating our predicament.

I have read and listened to many papers, interviews, and courses by Professor Keen. I think this is the best I have found. It's a must listen.

This podcast has few music and media interludes that you can skip if in a hurry.

http://www.extraenvironmentalist.com/episode-39-debunking-economics/

Roughly 90% of the world’s economics professionals failed to see the current economic crisis forming on the horizon of the early 21st century. Many of them are now striving for stability through policies of refinancing and quantitative easing. While this class of economic thinkers have driven the planet’s policies for decades, their faulty logic is being exposed by structurally high unemployment and failing banks. Ben Bernanke and Mario Draghi are using central bank policies to prop up a system that’s imploding due to heavy debt burdens by using national deficits for attempts to accelerate private debt accumulation once again. Could one of the few economists that predicted the current financial crash outline a path forward for educating the next round of economists while providing an alternative to austerity?

In Extraenvironmentalist #39 we speak with Steve Keen about how neoclassical economics controls the ways our governments think. Steve draws on themes from the second edition of his book that exposes neoclassical economics and its faulty logic, Debunking Economics. In the first half of the interview, we draw on a technical understanding of where neoclassical economics has gone wrong and where the economies of the Eurozone are headed through following the path of austerity. In the second half, we talk about modern debt jubilees and retooling economics education. After which, Jennifer Baichwal joins us at the 95′ mark to talk about her newest film, Payback, based on Margaret Atwood’s book about debt and debtor relationships. Last of all, Seth and I recall our recent gig at Jackson Hole.