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Steve Keen , es profesor de economía y finanzas en la Universidad de Western Sydney. Keen se considera a sí mismo un poskeynesiano. Su trabajo académico se ha concentrado en formular una crítica a la interpretación neoclásica de la macroeconomía, por carecer de fundamento empírico. Keen está influenciado por economistas como Hyman Minsky, Irving Fisher, John Maynard Keynes, Piero Sraffa, Joseph Alois Schumpeter y Francois Quesnay.[1]​[2]​ Wikipedia  

✵ 28. marzo 1953
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“Not even an economist can make time stand still”

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though some victims of economics lectures might dispute that!
Fuente: Debunking Economics - The Naked Emperor Of The Social Sciences (2001), Chapter 3, The Price Of Everything And The Value Of Nothing, p. 79

“If financial markets aren't efficient, then what are they? According to the 'fractal market hypothesis', they are highly unstable dynamic systems that generate stock prices which appear random, but behind which lie deterministic patterns.”

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Fuente: Debunking Economics - The Naked Emperor Of The Social Sciences (2001), Chapter 11, Finance And Economic Breakdown, p. 243

“Rather like the Bible is for many Christians, the General Theory is the essential economics reference which few economists have ever read.”

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Fuente: Debunking Economics - The Naked Emperor Of The Social Sciences (2001), Chapter 9, The Sum Of The Parts, p. 199

“There are numerous theorems in economics that rely upon mathematically fallacious propositions.”

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Fuente: Debunking Economics - The Naked Emperor Of The Social Sciences (2001), Chapter 12, Don't Shoot Me, I'm Only The Piano, p. 259

“The position I favor is that economics is a science, but a rather pathological one.”

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Fuente: Debunking Economics - The Naked Emperor Of The Social Sciences (2001), Chapter 7, There Is Madness In Their Method, p. 148

“The term 'capital' has two quite different meanings in economics: a sum of money, and a collection of machinery.”

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Fuente: Debunking Economics - The Naked Emperor Of The Social Sciences (2001), Chapter 6, The Holy War Over Capital, p. 130

“If investors disagree about future prospects of companies, then inevitably the future is not going to turn out as most — or perhaps even any — investors expect.”

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Fuente: Debunking Economics - The Naked Emperor Of The Social Sciences (2001), Chapter 10, The Price Is Not Right, p. 235 (See also: Andy Kessler)

“Which comes first — price being set by the intersection of supply and demand, or individual firms equating marginal cost to price?”

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Fuente: Debunking Economics - The Naked Emperor Of The Social Sciences (2001), Chapter 4, Size Does Matter, p. 101

“Thus while diminishing returns do exist when industries are broadly defined, no industry can be considered in isolation from all the others, as supply and demand curve analysis requires.”

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Fuente: Debunking Economics - The Naked Emperor Of The Social Sciences (2001), Chapter 3, The Price Of Everything And The Value Of Nothing, p. 69

“Trusting souls who accept economic assurances that markets are efficient are unlikely to fare any better this time when the Bull gives way to the Bear.”

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Fuente: Debunking Economics - The Naked Emperor Of The Social Sciences (2001), Chapter 10, The Price Is Not Right, p. 215

“Economics is not the Emperor of the social sciences, but the Humpty Dumpty.”

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Fuente: Debunking Economics - The Naked Emperor Of The Social Sciences (2001), Chapter 3, The Price Of Everything And The Value Of Nothing, p. 83

“Why do economists persist in modelling the economy with static tools when dynamic ones exist; why do they treat as stationery an entity which is forever changing?”

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Fuente: Debunking Economics - The Naked Emperor Of The Social Sciences (2001), Chapter 8, Let's Do The Time Warp Again, p. 177

“The EMH cannot apply in a world in which investors differ in their expectations, in which the future is uncertain, and in which borrowing is rationed.”

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Fuente: Debunking Economics - The Naked Emperor Of The Social Sciences (2001), Chapter 10, The Price Is Not Right, p. 234

“With the market so much more in control of the global economy now than fifty years ago, then if economists are right, the world should be a manifestly better place: it should be growing faster, with more stability, and income should go to those who deserve it.”

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Fuente: Debunking Economics - The Naked Emperor Of The Social Sciences (2001), Chapter 1, No More Mister Nice Guy, p. 2

“If a 19th century capitalist Machiavelli had wished to cripple the socialist intelligentsia of the 20th century, he could have invented no more cogent weapon than the labour theory of value. Yet this theory was the invention, not of a defender of capitalism, but of its greatest critic: Karl Marx.”

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Fuente: Debunking Economics - The Naked Emperor Of The Social Sciences (2001), Chapter 13, Nothing To Lose But Their Minds, p. 270–271 (See also: Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations, Book I, Chapter VI, p. 58)

“Though mainstream economics began by assuming that his hedonistic, individualistic approach to analysing consumer demand was intellectually sound, it ended up proving that it was not.”

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Fuente: Debunking Economics - The Naked Emperor Of The Social Sciences (2001), Chapter 2, The Calculus Of Hedonism, p. 23

“If values are fairly evenly distributed around an average, then roughly two-thirds of all outcomes will be one standard deviation other side of the average.”

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Fuente: Debunking Economics - The Naked Emperor Of The Social Sciences (2001), Chapter 10, The Price Is Not Right, p. 235

“Since in reality the stock market is inhabited by mere mortals, there is no way that the stock market can be efficient in the way that economists define the term.”

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Fuente: Debunking Economics - The Naked Emperor Of The Social Sciences (2001), Chapter 10, The Price Is Not Right, p. 216

“This ascendancy of economic theory has not made the world a better place. Instead, it has made an already troubled society worse: more unequal, more unstable, and less 'efficient.”

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Preface, p. xiv
Debunking Economics - The Naked Emperor Of The Social Sciences (2001)

“In general then, and contrary to Friedman, abandoning a factually false heuristic asumption will normally lead to a better theory — not a worse one.”

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Fuente: Debunking Economics - The Naked Emperor Of The Social Sciences (2001), Chapter 7, There Is Madness In Their Method, p. 153

“Economic theory in general ignores processes which take time to occur, and instead assumes that everything occurs in equilibrium.”

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Fuente: Debunking Economics - The Naked Emperor Of The Social Sciences (2001), Chapter 8, Let's Do The Time Warp Again, p. 166

“The belief that a capitalist economy is inherently stabilising is also one for which inhabitants of market economies may pay dearly in the future.”

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Fuente: Debunking Economics - The Naked Emperor Of The Social Sciences (2001), Chapter 9, The Sum Of The Parts, p. 213

“Even economists can't escape the fact that, as commodities go, labour is something out of the ordinary.”

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Fuente: Debunking Economics - The Naked Emperor Of The Social Sciences (2001), Chapter 5, To Each According To His Contribution, p. 112

“You have a voice, which has been perhaps been quiescent on matters economic because you have in the past deferred to the authority of the economist. There is no reason to remain quiet.”

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Fuente: Debunking Economics - The Naked Emperor Of The Social Sciences (2001), Chapter 14, There Are Alternatives, p. 313

“What makes economics different from and inferior to other sciences is the tenacity with which it holds to its core beliefs in the face of either contrary factual evidence or theoretical critiques that establish fundamental inconsistencies in its intellectual apparatus.”

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Fuente: Debunking Economics - The Naked Emperor Of The Social Sciences (2001), Chapter 7, There Is Madness In Their Method, p. 158

“If there was never any difference between the value of commodities someone desired to sell and buy on the market, then no-one would ever desire to accumulate wealth. But an essential feature of capitalism is the existence of a group of agents with precisely that intention.”

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Fuente: Debunking Economics - The Naked Emperor Of The Social Sciences (2001), Chapter 9, The Sum Of The Parts, p. 193

“The obsession with equilibrium has imposed enormous costs on economics.”

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Fuente: Debunking Economics - The Naked Emperor Of The Social Sciences (2001), Chapter 8, Let's Do The Time Warp Again, p. 177

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