Dr. Steve Keen Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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Red Mars
Kim Stanley Robinson
A “Wet Bulb Catastrophe” was the pivotal disaster in Kim Stanley Robinson’s fictional “Ministry for the Future”. It’s the kind of science fiction you don’t want to become reality. But it may soon, and long before @elonmusk’s favorite “Red Mars” https://t.co/iw8ejPCkbj
Paperback, 2021
$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Monetary Theory of Production
Augusto Graziani
@pslebow @AlanDownunder @progmoneycanada @katiecannon2 @Dalio4President @Kathryn85156324 @HarrisonTesoura @MazzucatoM @FareedZakaria @M_C_Klein @spaikin @RayDalio @RBReich @rustyrockets @StephanieKelton @scientificecon @adam_tooze @jryancollins @billy_blog @John_T_Harvey @ellenhbrown @ArmineYalnizyan @KnowParty @OccupytheFeds Read the first 2 chapters of The monetary theory of production by Augusto Graziani https://t.co/q0Hnywf8K7
Paperback, 2009
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The Paradox of Debt: A New Path to Prosperity Without Crisis
Richard Vague
@Stuttgart1988 All of it. Richard Vague is a close friend and intellectual partner, and I recommend all his work--including his next book, The Paradox of Debt, which is the subject of this column. @DebtEconomics
Hardcover, 2023
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The New Economics: A Manifesto
Steve Keen
. @metacpc publishes "The New Economics: A Manifesto, by Steve Keen | a theological response by Paul Tyson" https://t.co/GQUfjBk1IF
Hardcover, 2021
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Differential Equations and Their Applications: Short Version
M. Braun
@SocialistAdam @blair_fix As for my approach, the methods you need are in the previous tweet. Best book on ODEs is Martin Braun, Ordinary Differential Equations and their Applications. In System Dynamics , download my Minsky manual from https://t.co/IFYnFhDEIo
Paperback, 2012
$54.99$29.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book(max discount $25)
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams
@PaulGambles2 @AndysCycles @MBMG_GROUP Please. Do not mention Douglas Adams, "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", dolphins, and economic policy making, in the one sentence. Unless you are attributing the last mentioned to Vogons.
Paperback, Mass Market, 1995
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Murphy Plays: 4: Whistle in the Dark;crucial Week in the Life of a Grocer's Assistant;on the Outside; On the Inside
Tom Murphy
@JonathanWaxman1 That’s Tom Murphy’s work https://t.co/rGvftZyvcD and he shows that, through waste heat is 4 orders of magnitude lower that radiative forcing now, at 2.3% p.a. growth rate it will exceed Heat retention by greenhouse gases within a couple of centuries
Paperback, 1997
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An Illustrated Business History of the United States
Richard Vague
@gsnedeker @conchofarmer @HenricCont @pablomelito1 @clintballinger @malcolm_reavell @PaulGambles2 @KimDriver11 @barua_ashish The definitive references on this is are A Brief History of Doom and An Illustrated Business History of the United States by Richard Vague and the @PrivateDebtProj https://t.co/YcFPXPO1co & https://t.co/Meiu7sMnFI. For more fact & less ideology, read these first.
Hardcover, 2021
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John Maynard Keynes
Hyman P. Minsky
@SimonGrothe @StephanieKelton A pity that it was Hyman Minsky's worst book! I always recommend CAN "IT" HAPPEN AGAIN" as the first book to read https://t.co/sy2vqccFf0; second, his real magnum opus JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES https://t.co/0ne7eMFJNt. Stabilizing? I agree with @paulkrugman for once, not worth reading
Paperback, 2008
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The Ministry for the Future
Kim Stanley Robinson
A “Wet Bulb Catastrophe” was the pivotal disaster in Kim Stanley Robinson’s fictional “Ministry for the Future”. It’s the kind of science fiction you don’t want to become reality. But it may soon, and long before @elonmusk’s favorite “Red Mars” https://twitter.com/sonykapoor/status/1521796568105508866
Paperback, 2021
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