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Steve Keen
Personal blog · profstevekeen.substack.comeconomicspolitics
Steve Keen writes Building a New Economics, a personal blog at profstevekeen.substack.com about economics and politics. Since 2022, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-31, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
HN readers link Steve Keen's Substack for posts on money creation and monetary accounting, including government receipts and outlays and the role of banks. The only comment engages with his scoping of the money circuit.
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What Hacker News says?
The accounts you showed are not in dispute, nor that governments have receipts and outlays[1]. Your point about scoping is an important one. The discussion is about the whole circuit - from money creation to destruction. For that, you need an accounting model that covers all the entities in the circuit, including notably the money source, the bank (there's only one in the government circuit, conveniently owned by th…
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on “Money bubble”Submitted How Capitalism Kills Good Software as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted None So Blind as Those Who Will Not See as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The End of the US Global Monetary System as a story · 2 points
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