Steve Keen On Keynes And The Failings Of The Neoclassical School

[stockholmer]

Run time: 25:16 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7F2FKxxN_IE   Posted on YouTube: October 14, 2011 By YouTube Member: RenegadeEconomist Views on YouTube: 4153   Posted on DU: October 16, 2011 By DU Member: stockholmer Views on DU: 1522

 
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/steve-keen-keynes-and-failings-neoclassical-school

When it comes to economics, our ridicule of the underpinnings of the dismal voodoo science are well known. Only Ivy league professors can profess to predict the future based on special case equations that isolate a system in vacuum, completely oblivious of the fact that nothing in the world is linear and if anything, a system based on Lorenz attractors and Mandelbrott theory would be far better suited to demonstrate that as far as predicting the future is concerned, it is nothing short of an exercise in futility.

That said, we do appreciate the work of those economists who are first to admit not only their own limitations but the limits of the art, not science, that they engage in. Chief among them is Australian Steve Keen, whose work and analysis http://www.debtdeflation.com/blogs/ we always enjoy.

For those unfamiliar with Keen, we have attached the following just released interview with Ross Ashcroft of The Renegade Economist in which he deconstructs the failings of contemporary interpretations of Keynesianism (in essence the usurpation of theory by those in power to perpetuate their own greedy practical pursuits), and exposes the core of neoclassical economics that guide every day macroeconomics for the sham it is: "fundamentally neoclassical economists are the priests of Capitalism, but the priests don't necessarily know there is god.

They have this model of god and ditto with neoclassical economics: they have a model of capitalism which is almost but not quite, completely unlike actual capitalism. And they don't even realize that they have erected a smokescreen behind which if people want to rip the system off, then there is plenty of avenues created by these guys." Just a thought, but perhaps it is time for #OccupyWallStreet http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23OccupyWallStreet to pay a visit and #OccupyNYUEconomicsDepartment http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23OccupyNYUEconomicsDepartment ...

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[fascisthunter]

1. very informative... thanks

[Enthusiast]

2. Wow!

"They have a model of capitalism which is almost but not quite, completely unlike actual capitalism."

[mckara]

3. I Recommend Steve Keen's Book, Too!!!