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Steve Keen (born 28 March 1953) is an Australian-born economist and author. He considers himself a post-Keynesian, criticizing neoclassical economics as ...

Steve Keen Interview – Part 5: The UK’s business like approach to education leaves very little room for innovation. How do we shift the focus from...

Had a debate on Twitter about it. To my surprise, the marxists I engaged with were very knowledgeable as well as very polite and patient.

With his persistent snipping from the Post-Keynesian left, Steve Keen has managed to get under the skin of Paul Krugman, the prominent Nobel laureate economics professor at Princeton and New York T...

Chapter 17 of Steve Keen’s Debunking Economics is a rejection of the Marxist Labour Theory of Value(LTV), and with it the most generally accepted analytical form of Marxism. However, Keen does not reject Marx’s ideas outright, instead suggesting and praising an alternative interpretation: one shorn of the LTV, the tendency for the rate of profit to fall, and hence the inevitably of socialism.

Our lead story: On Sept 18, 2014, Scotland will vote on whether it wants to separate from the UK. About a third of the voting population in Scotland believe that it is time to leave the United Kingdom, and strike out on their own. However, perhaps a follow up vote should be cast on whether Scotland should issue its own currency. Erin takes a look.