Steve Keen
Australian economist and author (born 1953) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Steve Keen (born 28 March 1953) is an Australian economist and author. He considers himself a post-Keynesian, criticising neoclassical economics as inconsistent, unscientific, and empirically unsupported.
Steve Keen | |
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Born | (1953-03-28) 28 March 1953 (age 71) Sydney, New South Wales, Australia |
Nationality | Australian |
Education | University of New South Wales |
Academic career | |
School or tradition | Post-Keynesian economics, Ecological economics |
Influences | |
Contributions | Mathematical models of financial crises and debt-deflation |
Information at IDEAS / RePEc | |
Keen was formerly an associate professor of economics at University of Western Sydney, until he applied for voluntary redundancy in 2013, due to the closure of the economics program at the university.[1] In 2014, he became a professor and Head of the School of Economics, History and Politics at Kingston University in London. He has since taken retirement and is crowd source funded to undertake independent research as well as being a Distinguished Research Fellow at the Institute for Strategy Resilience & Security, University College London.[2]