great minds i'm joined by steve keen steve is a professor of economics and finance at the university of western sydney else in sydney australia and a world renowned authority on a wide range of macro economic issues clearly 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 for us are keane's book economics now revised an expanded edition 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 be here at home thanks for joining us you could associated your name has been associated with modern monetary or modern money theory tell me about that and your association ok to use the uniting thing about my approach and modern monetary theory is we both believe that macroeconomics should be monetary and as opposed to the new classical view which paul krugman example follows on the on the left of