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Don't Trust an Economist

Tony Porter, Andrea da Silva and Jacob Bruner on recorder in Holladay Arts staged concert- rehearsal-- August 2010

Performances will be 9/1 - 9/2 7...

The GIlbert & Sullivan Very Light Opera Company, of Minneapolis, Minnesota, produced The Sorcerer in March, 2010. Alixis & Aline were downstage of...

Sing Hallelujah is a nationwide project which encourages people to find their voice and discover the joy of singing through Handel's famous "Hallel...

Probably my favourite patter song to sing, with nice changes of pace and flashy fast bits...

From the 2008 Gosforth Musical Society production of '...

Patter song from "Ruddigore" performed by the Gilbert and Sullivan Society of Chester County, November 2003. John Dennison as Despard Murgatroyd, ...

Lady Blanche wants to take over Princess Ida's school.

Arne Larsen performing Arac in Princess Ida at the International G&S Festival in Buxton, England.

This is a reasonably comprehensive lecture covering the failure of neoclassical macroeconomics to foresee the crisis (and the attempt by neoclassic...

Which Lion Is Which?

Should government pay off our debts?

Economist Steve Keen says we are already in another Great Depression. He advocates bankrupting the banks, nat...

A "crash course in capitalism" given at http://sustainabilityconfer... in which I explain my approach to economic modeling to a lay ...

A "crash course in capitalism" given at http://sustainabilityconfer... in which I explain my approach to economic modeling to a lay ...

A "crash course in capitalism" given at http://sustainabilityconfer... in which I explain my approach to economic modeling to a lay ...

Endogenous money is an established empirical fact, but a seriously underdeveloped concept in economics. In this lecture I cover some of the foundat...

In this second half of the lecture, I outline the Fractal Markets Hypothesis and the Inefficient Markets Hypothesis (IEH). The IEH suggests precise...

The Fractal Markets Hypothesis and the Inefficient Markets Hypothesis are two of several attempts to provide a realistic theory of how finance mark...

Eugene Fama was an enthusiastic promoter of CAPM and the Efficient Markets Hypothesis, arguing that despite their absurd assumptions, the data supp...

The CAPM and EMH stick to the neoclassical script of believing that the economy and finance markets are stable, at or near equilibrium, and on this...

CAPM appeared to fit the statistical evidence for a the period prior to its development, enabling its supporters to champion it and leading to it t...

John von Neumann developed Expected Utility theory to wean economists off indifference curve analysis and onto a numerical basis for utility. Inst...

In this half of the lecture, I show that even if there was a downward-sloping demand curve, Neoclassical supply and demand analysis is still invali...

In this second half of the first lecture, I explain Sippel's result that most people aren't "rational" as Neoclassical economists define it--becaus...

This is the first of about 20 videos of my lectures in Behavioural Finance at the University of Western Sydney (2 videos per lecture). This first l...

In the last lecture I showed that the Neoclassical model of consumer behavior doesn't work, and is computationally impossible. In this lecture, I s...

The remarkable thing was not that I and a handful of others saw this crisis coming, but that so many neoclassical economists had no idea it was app...

I discuss the economists who influenced Minsky--Marx, Fisher, Schumpeter and Keynes--as a prelude to outlining Minsky's Financial Instability Hypot...

I continue the development of the QED model of a pure credit economy began in the last lecture, including modelling production and developing a pri...

I use the model developed in the first half to show that money is not neutral in a credit-based economy--a higher rate of money creation results in...

Extending the model developed in the first half of the lecture to include payment of wages and consumption. The resulting model "works" in that it ...

Though the basic ideas of the Monetary Circuit are brilliant, when it came to turning these into a model of the monetary circuit, the Circuitists m...

Uitvoering november 2010

Met dank aan TV-Maastricht voor de prachtige opnames.

My speech and Ann Pettifor's speech at the launch of the 2nd edition of Debunking Economics, at the University College London on October 4 2011. I ...

The fact that Australia didn't experience a bad recession during the GFC is sometimes attributed to its better regulatory system. It would be a mir...

A video of the inspiration behind the Minsky program, whose development is being funded by the Institute for New Economic Thinking.

Interview with Dave Wetzel on Land Value Tax - for more info visit http://www.labourland.org

Given how appallingly bad neoclassical economics is, an alternative economics that is at least roughly capable of reproducing the actual performanc...

One year after the start of the greatest economic crisis since the Great Depression, the editor of the American Economic Review: Macroeconomics cla...

See much more animation and HOW to animate in my Book/DVD on Amazon

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Ani... From ...

The Glee Club sing the Land song which was made popular during the campaign for Land Taxation. The campaign asserted the primacy of the ballot box ...

Mihaly Szekely (1901-1963)

Does anyone remember the marvelous Hungarian bass Mihaly Szekely? He was highly acclaimed during his career, which took...

Mainstream "Neoclassical" Economists famously did not see the Great Recession coming, and when you look at their theories, it's no wonder. Their fa...

The master, Kurt Moll, in Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail, singing O wie will ich triumphieren. Covent Garden 1990, Solti conducting.

A short snippet from an excellent lecture. For more info go to www.debtdeflation.com/blogs

Pete Young of EconomicStability grabbed this interview with Australian Economist Steve Keen, of the blog Debtwatch, in Chicago, October 2, 2010, wh...