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This week's program comes from the London School of

Economics where Professor Steve Keene talks to Newsnight's economics editor Paul Mason

about how he saw the financial crisis coming.

Good evening and welcome to the old theatre at the London School of Economics.

I'm Paul Mason here with a packed audience.

In this week's edition of analysis,

I'll be talking to Steve Keen about his claim

that if we keep the parasitic banking sector alive,

the economy dies.

Steve Keene is professor of economics and finance at the University of Western Sydney in Australia

and has a cult following among critics of mainstream economics. He was one of a small

number of economists who put their reputations on the line before the collapse of Lehman

Brothers and predicted there would be a major financial crisis. In his recently updated book debunking economics,

the naked emperor dethroned, he argues that much of what is taught here at the LSC and other major institutions is, to put it politely, flawed, and not only flawed,

but helped cause and accentuate the impact of the crash.

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