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Vive, Yea, if you can get through it, Epistemics and Economics is an interesting book. I've read around a third of it, but I had to postpone it because it was taking too long to read. His sentences tend to be hard to follow. The subject matter is very technical, but you don't need complex language to communicate complex ideas. It's strange
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The Post Keynesian school is pretty diverse. There are some economists pretty close to the Neoclassical tradition, who were influenced by Post Keynesians (in the same sense that there are Austrian influenced economists who are essentially in the mainstream). There are Neo-Ricardians (Sraffians). Et cetera. I have some familiarity with the literature
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I also recommend branching out in the other direction: R.H. Coase, J.M. Buchanan, A.A. Alchian, D.C. North, et cetera. Post Keynesianism is fun, but its usefulness, in my opinion, is limited.
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What Monroe said. Put your ideas out there. Try to get websites that enjoy relatively heavy traffic to publish your stuff. Start a blog. Use YouTube. Academic credentials obviously help, but you don't need them. I've been "hired" to do talks on economics by several organizations (one of them thought I had a masters degree, and I had
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Externalize the costs to the taxpayer.
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Once you read the second part of the book you'll see how it doesn't as much as you think. I think Minsky's theories are somewhat similar, but Keen is more of a neo-Sraffian (and therefore more rooted in the Marxist tradition).
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Debunking Economics - Steve Keen Brace yourself. I read it, thought I agreed with much of the first part (not so much the rest of it), but suggestion is to read it and sit on it (think about it) over a long period of time. The longer I go after reading it the less I agree with it.
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Neodoxy writes, Why? Wouldn't that have the same effect? And also why would banks only increase the money supply when there was a change in money demand? I'll answer the third question first. Inside money should be thought of as liabilities to the banks. To issue liabilities, banks need to have certain capital reserves; that is, a bank's
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Austrian free bankers don't consider changes in the money stock to accomodate changes in the demand for money as distortionary.
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I'm also from San Diego, but I've lived about a third of my life in Spain and have dual citizenship (my permanent residence is in San Diego, though).