Steve Keen

Steve Keen
Keen in 2013
Born (1953-03-28) 28 March 1953 (age 71)
NationalityAustralian
Education
Academic career
School or
tradition
Post-Keynesian economics, Ecological economics
Influences
ContributionsMathematical models of financial crises and debt-deflation
Information at IDEAS / RePEc

Steve Keen (born 28 March 1953) is an Australian economist and author. He considers himself a post-Keynesian, criticising neoclassical economics as inconsistent, unscientific, and empirically unsupported.


Keen was formerly an associate professor of economics at University of Western Sydney, until he applied for voluntary redundancy in 2013, due to the closure of the economics program at the university.[1] In 2014, he became a professor and Head of the School of Economics, History and Politics at Kingston University in London. He has since taken retirement and is crowd source funded to undertake independent research as well as being a Distinguished Research Fellow at the Institute for Strategy Resilience & Security, University College London.[2]

  1. ^ "Debtwatch economist Steve Keen takes UWS to Fair Work Commission, but uni gets ready to fire back". 20 January 2013. Archived from the original on 15 July 2014. Retrieved 6 July 2014.
  2. ^ ISRS, UCL staff