The bank of england has now very well articulated, which is i'm grateful for, because ten or 15 years ago, people didn't believe me when i was talking about that. The kean saw tatagardminski is that credit is part of aggregate demand and aggregate income. So the change in debt is literally a one for one contribution to demand right now. And of course, credit can be positive or negative. But if you have rising debt, credit is positive, adding to demand but subtracting from demand. That's what caused the financial crisis. It all comes down to differing marginal propensities to consume.
On this episode, we meet with Economist, Author, and Research Fellow at the Institute for Strategy, Resilience, and Security at University College in London, Steve Keen.
Keen discusses how mainstream economics misses the centrality of energy to our economy and to our futures, the naive treatment to the risks of money and debt creation, and the disconnect economic theory has to climate change risks.
About Steve Keen:
Steve Keen is an economist, author of Debunking Economics and The New Economics: A Manifesto, a Research Fellow at the Institute for Strategy, Resilience, and Security at University College in London.
For Show Notes and Transcript visit: https://www.thegreatsimplification.com/episode/30-steve-keen