I'm
pleased to forward an announcement of this MEERTALK by Steve Keen, a
heterodox economist (like myself), whom I believe is one of the most
prominent and interesting poitical economists of our times. Steve, for
example, is widely recognized as one of the eleven economists who
predicted the financial crisis with models and timing (many radical
economists had no doubt that a major crash was coming - I for example
presented a theoretical paper at the American Economic Association on
this and later on an empirical paper dating the crash for the Illinois
economy but no direct empiricial analysis for the global economy) but
Steve had a general financial crash model with data and a timing
estimate. Others in this exclusive club are listed
here:
http://investorhome.com/predicted.htm . His work on Nordhaus and
mainstream climate modeling is even more eye opening. Needless to say I
highly recommend attending this talk if can!