Bite-size chunks of Lex and Steve
And I thought I worked hard! After releasing the full 3 hour 31 minute discussion on his podcast channel yesterday, Lex has now published six (so far) bite-size excerpts on key issues on his Lex Clips YouTube channel:
- Human civilization is headed toward an economic crisis
- Economics summarized in 10 minutes
- What is socialism?
- Stalin vs Marx: Why communism failed in the Soviet Union
- Austrian Economics Explained
- Marxism Explained
There may well be more released, (the last went up just an hour ago, the first 22 hours ago), so keep an eye on the Lex Clips channel. Of course, feel free to send these to anyone who you think might find them interesting (or, for that matter, aggravating!).
The New Economics: A Manifesto
In 1517, Martin Luther nailed his 95 theses to the wall of Wittenberg church. He argued that the Church’s internally consistent but absurd doctrines had pickled into a dogmatic structure of untruth. It was time for a Reformation. Half a millennium later, Steve Keen argues that economics needs its own Reformation.
Half a millennium later, Steve Keen argues that economics needs its own Reformation. In Debunking Economics, he eviscerated an intellectual church – neoclassical economics – that systematically ignores its own empirical untruths and logical fallacies, and yet is still mysteriously worshipped by its scholarly high priests. In this book, he presents his Reformation: a New Economics, which tackles serious issues that today's economic priesthood ignores, such as money,
