Episode 14 - COVID & Climate Change Correlations with Steve Keen and Special Guest Scott Heftler(UD)

COVID & Climate Change Correlations is a series about the pandemic, the lessons we are continuing to learn, and the similarities we face as the more complex reality of climate action is upon us. Topics range from Marxism to post-Keynesian mathematical proofs and beyond. #SteveKeen #ClimateChange #postKeynesian #COVID #Climate

Today's guest is Scott Heftler. Scott Heftler is a Ph.D. Philosopher at The University of Texas at Austin with specialties in Early Modern philosophy, Madhyamika, historical Christianity, Kant, and the Frankfurt School.

0:00 Intro
0:52 Ian Dunlock
1:32 Financial Crisis
6:30 Deviation
10:00 Dept and crisis correlation (China's dept, private dept)
12:30 Changing the rules of the banks
15:20 Steve's statement on 2009 crisis and other economists stand on it
20:15 Dept Jubilee
28:38 Knowledge in banking
31:56 Book recommendation
32:57 Minsky software (download)
35:35 Minsky software (data deposition)
38:32 Work class vs capitalist
44:10 How do you convince them to vote republican?
46:25 The great dept debate
52:08 Barter or credit based society?
56:12 Sign off
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Steve Keen is an Australian economist and author. He considers himself a post-Keynesian, criticizing neoclassical economics as inconsistent, unscientific and empirically unsupported.

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