great minds i'm joined by steve keen steve is a professor of economics and finance at the university of western city us in sydney australia and a world renowned authority on a wide range of macro economic issues debt financial instability in monetary theory a frequent critic of mainstream economists who predicted the financial collapse of two thousand and eight received the revere award from the real world economics reviews for his cutting analysis of contemporary economic trends present keen's book economics now revise an expanded edition of the naked emperor dethroned is a must read for anyone interested in learning about how we got into our current financial mess steve welcome a lot of the vehicle and thanks for joining us you could associated your name has been associated with modern monetary or modern money theory tell me about that in your association ok to see you nodding thing about my approach and modern monetary theory which we both believe that macroeconomics should be monetary and as opposed to the near classical view which paul krugman example follows on the on the left of the new. emph