Steve Keen

Steve Keen
Keen in 2013
Born (1953-03-28) 28 March 1953
Academic background
Education
Influences
Academic work
School or traditionPost-Keynesian economics, Ecological economics
Notable ideasMathematical models of financial crises and debt-deflation
Website

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. 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; he is an Honorary Professor UCL, and Distinguished Research Fellow at the Institute for Strategy Resilience & Security, University College London.