{"id":71364,"date":"2023-08-15T08:00:46","date_gmt":"2023-08-15T07:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=71364"},"modified":"2023-08-15T08:02:06","modified_gmt":"2023-08-15T07:02:06","slug":"the-paradox-of-debt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2023\/08\/15\/the-paradox-of-debt\/","title":{"rendered":"The paradox of debt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I share this content from Steve Keen's latest newsletter because it reminds me that I have the book he is referring to, and have yet to even open it, and because he obviously thinks so much of it that it is worthwhile promoting:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-71368\" src=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Screenshot-2023-08-15-at-07.50.03-550x539.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"539\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Screenshot-2023-08-15-at-07.50.03-550x539.png 550w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Screenshot-2023-08-15-at-07.50.03-306x300.png 306w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Screenshot-2023-08-15-at-07.50.03-768x753.png 768w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Screenshot-2023-08-15-at-07.50.03-408x400.png 408w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Screenshot-2023-08-15-at-07.50.03.png 1136w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-71367\" src=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Screenshot-2023-08-15-at-07.50.19-550x512.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Screenshot-2023-08-15-at-07.50.19-550x512.png 550w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Screenshot-2023-08-15-at-07.50.19-322x300.png 322w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Screenshot-2023-08-15-at-07.50.19-768x715.png 768w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Screenshot-2023-08-15-at-07.50.19-430x400.png 430w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Screenshot-2023-08-15-at-07.50.19.png 1154w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/> A 65-page <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.co.uk\/books\/edition\/The_Paradox_of_Debt\/IrB5EAAAQBAJ?hl=en&amp;gbpv=1&amp;printsec=frontcover\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">preview of the book is available here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Steve's mail list is well worth being on. The <a href=\"https:\/\/profstevekeen.substack.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Substack version is here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And if you are looking for a hard copy, this is what you're seeking:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-71366\" src=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/content-550x884.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"415\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/content-550x884.jpeg 550w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/content-187x300.jpeg 187w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/content-768x1234.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/content-956x1536.jpeg 956w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/content-1274x2048.jpeg 1274w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/content-249x400.jpeg 249w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/content.jpeg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 415px) 100vw, 415px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I share this content from Steve Keen&#8217;s latest newsletter because it reminds me that I have the book he is referring to, and have yet<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2023\/08\/15\/the-paradox-of-debt\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71364"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71369,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71364\/revisions\/71369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}