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Analysis: Steve Keen: Why Economics is Bunk

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Steve Keen: Why Economics Is Bunk

04/06/2012

Steve Keen: Why Economics is Bunk

BBC Radio 4 - Analysis, Steve Keen: Why Economics is Bunk

Newsnight economics editor Paul Mason interviews the controversial economist Steve Keen.

Newsnight economics editor Paul Mason interviews the controversial economist Steve Keen before an audience at the LSE. Keen was one of the few who predicted the 2008 crash.

Newsnight Economics Editor Paul Mason interviews the controversial economist Steve Keen before an audience at the London School of Economics. 

Prof Keen was one of a small number of economists who predicted there would be a major financial crisis before the 2008 crash. 

He argues that if we keep the "parasitic banking sector" alive then the economy will die, and says that conventional economics provides an unwitting cover for "the greatest ponzi schemes in history".

Producer: Kavita Puri.

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