American manufacturing continues its slide, dragging global markets with it - but could it have been caused by the tariffs meant to protect industry? We managed to catch up with Author and Economist Steve Keen to get his take on the international slump and what we can expect on the horizon.
Steve Keen is an Australian-born, British-based 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 autumn 2014 he became a professor and Head of the School of Economics, History and Politics at Kingston University in London. He is also a fellow at the Centre for Policy Development.