Business Analytics and Operations Research: Tomato, To-mah-toe, Tractor!
There are few things in life more tedious than assigning boundaries to fundamentally ill-defined concepts. Either terms are used to divide things that cannot be divided (“No, no, that is...
View ArticleProf Steve Keen YouTube Channel in business again
Some time back a YouTube Channel “ProfSteveKeen” was established to collate my video interviews. It’s been inactive since then, but recently Sydney writer/director and multimedia reporter Benny...
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Recession Sessions: Music for the Great Recession
Recession Sessions is an album of economics-themed songs dedicated to the Great Recession. It’s pioneering the genre of “financial folk”, and raising money for the Somerville Homeless Coalition, a...
View Article5 places at Property Bubble Crash Debate for blog members
I’m taking part in the “Property Bubble Crash Debate” next Tuesday at the Wesley Centre, 220 Pitt Street, Sydney, 12pm-2pm.read more...
View ArticleNew YouTube VideoâMyth of Responsible Australian Bank Lending
I’ve just posted a new video to the ProfKeen YouTube Channel; watch it there or click below. Thanks again to Benny Sutton for the superb production!read more...
View ArticleRecording of a talk about financial communication and the sovereign crisis...
This is a recording of a talk that Daniel Beunza gave at the Goodenough College earlier this week and  here are the slides from the talk.read more...
View ArticleFranck Cochoy @ Goldsmiths, March 16th
A very last minute notification of an event tomorrow at Goldsmiths which might interest some readers of this blog:read more...
View ArticlePost-Doc: Performativity in Business Education, Management Consulting and...
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View ArticleCan you measure market fear?
Donald MacKenzie is again in the news. A recent article by Gillian Tett draws on MacKenzie’s work to make sense of the recent success of a sophisticated financial instrument. (Thanks to Martha Poon,...
View ArticleEnvironmental valuation summer school: Lousã (Portugal),...
Thought this summer school, primarily aimed at PhD students & early career researchers, might be of interest to readers of this blog. Titled the ‘Critical Economies Summer School’ (CES), guest...
View ArticlePetition for Sustainable Banking
Blog readers may be interested by the following petition (an initiative from BankTrack, Friends of the Earth, and other NGOs):read more...
View ArticleWebcast UCSC Rethinking Capitalism
Hat tip to IPK Cultures of Finance: the website of UCSC Rethinking Capitalism offers a nice webcast series. I would like to recommend for example Bill Maurer’s excellent talk here.read more...
View ArticleProfessional Workshop: Performativity and the Social Studies of Finance at...
Whether it is the European sovereign debt crisis, the NYSE- Deutsche Boerse merger or the precipitous exchange rate of the dollar, recent events make clear that (as the ad reads), “we live in Financial...
View ArticleWorkshop date and time now confirmed
This summer’s Professional Development Workshop in Performativity and the Social Studies of Finance at the Academy of Management finally has a firm date and time. It will take place on Friday, Aug 12...
View ArticleâSpain, the Sovereign Debt Crisis and the Sociology of Finance.â...
With the dramatic bailouts of Greece, Ireland and Portugal (and the fear of one in Spain that never happened), the sovereign debt crisis of 2010-11 has put a distinct political twist on a crisis that...
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New Video On Security Indexes
Due to severe inclement weather (ice storm), less than half of my investments class showed up on Wednesday. The topic (market indexes) seems to give some of them trouble. So, rather than either go over...
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Using Screen Recording Software
After I posted my video on security market indexes, I received a number of emails and messages asking questions on how I make them. So, I thought it would make for a a good post. So think of this a a...
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It's Time for Some Testosterone
As my students and some of my friends know, I'm a big MMA (Mixed Martial Arts) fan. I did Tae Kwon Do in high school and competed in Judo in college, so I can appreciate a lot of the technical aspects....
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I'm less of a man than I used to be
Those of you who know me in my "real" identity also know that I've put on a lot of weight over the years. Some of it was stress, some due to the fact that I like food (after all, I haven't found...
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Your Time-Wasting Moment Of The Day
Since we're at Hump Day + 1, I thought I'd post something humorous. The Unknown Daughter loves shows where someone ends up in a puddle of mud, slime, goo, or anything disgusting. So ABC's Wipeout was...
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