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Top Economist Steve Keen challenges reasoning by analogy and shows how to analyze the economy from first principles — the way engineers and physicists think. Using double-entry bookkeeping and live Ravel demos, Steve dismantles textbook models like loanable funds, exposes why supply-and-demand curves don’t describe money creation, and builds a dynamic macro model from definitions, not assumptions.

In this eye-opening breakdown, you’ll discover:

✅ First principles vs analogy: why the engineer’s method beats classroom shortcuts

✅ Why the claim that countries are like households is a false analogy for deficits and debt

✅ The monetary system’s real foundations: double-entry bookkeeping, not supply and demand curves

✅ Ravel demo: taxation, reserves, and sectoral balances explained step by step

✅ Why a government surplus equals a private sector deficit, and why that matters

✅ A macro model from strict definitions: employment, wage share, private debt, deficit

✅ Credit’s central role in cycles, and its tight link with unemployment

✅ Why energy belongs inside production functions, grounded in thermodynamics

✅ How ideology keeps bad models alive, and how to replace them

Key insights:

• Engineer it, don’t analogize it: start from accounting identities and conservation laws.

• Sectoral balances: public saving, a surplus, reduces private net financial assets by the same amount.

• Money creation: banks do not use supply and demand curves; they use double-entry to create deposits when they lend.

• Dynamics over equilibrium: definitional dynamics generate cycles; equilibrium is a convenience fantasy.

• Credit drives cycles: credit and unemployment move in opposite directions.

• Energy is fundamental: changes in energy use track changes in global output remarkably closely.

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Who is Dr. Steve Keen?

Dr. Steve Keen is a globally recognized economist who replaces textbook abstractions with accounting-consistent and data-driven models. Creator of the Minsky and Ravel software tools, Steve’s work shows how bank money, private debt, and energy shape real-world cycles. If you think like an engineer or physicist and want operational clarity over ideology, this channel is for you.

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