👉 Tap this post to get started. // Hey guys, it's Jordan - Dr. Steve Keen's business partner since 2022, going on year 4 now. Whew. I've mainly been helping Steve manage his paid Challenge group and have accidentally neglected this Free Group. I'll take full responsibility for that. Let me make up for my mistakes now. For some reason the free book bundle was linking somewhere else, when it should've just shown the download files. As promised, below are the 3 books that were promised - usually $104.97 USD, but 100% FREE for you guys here. Below are the details copied from Steve's email: 1. Funny Money ($34.99) – A humorous, visual reality check on the world of money (made with talented cartoonist, Miguel Guerra). 2. New Economics Sampler ($34.99) – Groundbreaking realities that demolish outdated assumptions. 3. Macroeconomics for Engineers ($34.99) – The newest one. Often referred as the "Elon Is Wrong" Amazon category-bestseller. A deep dive into market dynamics from an engineer’s perspective. Thank you for your patience & trusting Steve in fighting the mainstream delusions today. I really hope you enjoy these books as much as everyone else has. P.S. I'm curious, which book are you going to read first?My fav is the cartoons from Funny Money but others really love the Elon one

I’m grateful to @Andy Lippok for his mention of Jennifer Engelman’s project, called Regenerative Economics, aimed at reforming the secondary-school teaching of economics. https//www.regenerativeeconomics.earth/home On 26Sept26 I attended a workshop in this project and this Post describes my reactions. I’m also grateful to Richard O’Rourke for alerting me to a previous initiative of this kind, organised in the US from 1992 by Jay Forrester - the MIT Professor who pioneered the computer-modelling of complex-system dynamics. This initiative was a limited success - working well with teachers who had the appropriate skills but failing to be adopted throughout the US teaching community as a whole. Two key documents about Forrester’s initiative are his initial description - ‘System Dynamics and Learner-Centered-Learning in Kindergarten through 12th Grade Education’ https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/15-988-system-dynamics-self-study-fall-1998-spring-1999/4b944c9130cf9cceae0520907bbd4731_learning.pdf and a critical review of the initiative’s impact 15 years later - ‘The future of system dynamics and learner-centered learning in K-12 education' https://proceedings.systemdynamics.org/2002/proceed/papers/Stuntz1.pdf Englemann’s new initiative seems to have the same overall aims but by wholly different means. She proposes almost no attention to mathematics and modelling, at this stage. Instead, she highlights all the factors that orthodox economics wilfully omits yet are clearly part of an economy. She mentions Kate Raworth’s ‘doughnout’ diagram as a good illustration of such factors. I get the sense that the word ‘regenerative’ in the initiative’s title encompasses several meanings of ‘generating afresh’ - the regenerating of thought, as public understanding; the regenerating of rules and procedures in the economy; the regenerating of money’s mechanisms and the regeneration of the breadth and depth of political possibility. Her summary of principles is an attached screengrab.

The ideas of neoliberalism have dominated politics and the economy for about 50 years, leading most visibly to immense wealth for some of us and less wealth for most of us. However, I think history will name another and far longer-term effect as the most consequential - a retreat from the resilience that diversity supplies. I’m thinking of declining diversity in many senses - through monoculture in agriculture, through fossil fuels in energy sources, through ‘just-in-time’ manufacturing and through what I’ll call ‘mono-structural design’ in both the sourcing and supply of electricity and water. Neoliberalism with its forebears, without clear acknowledgement or debate, has increasingly put all of society’s metaphorical eggs in one basket. The downsides of reduced or missing resilience are obvious in a article about the flow of the Danube. See https://www.theguardian.com/news/ng-interactive/2026/aug/16/danube-drought-destroyed-crops-rock-of-starvation-climate-crisis. We’re leaving an era where money was what mattered - being valuable and relatively scarce - and where food, fuel and drink were taken for granted - being abundant and relatively cheap. In the coming era, it’s already clear that things will work the other way around.

Steve has made it clear that, in economics, most universities are barriers rather than bridges to knowledge. ‘Regenerating Economics’ is a counter-initiative mentioned by a Scottish Skool member (sadly, I’ve lost their name - would they please identify below) I plan to visit to this group, to explore their awareness of Steve’s work, Ravel and Skool. See - https://www.regenerativeeconomics.earth/home It aims to rebuild education about economics from scratch, at secondary-school level. It’s currently a small group but they seem to have extensive experience of that level of education. It’s ambitious, multi-national and very much a work-in-progress - much of its Website is under construction. It’s building an online textbook, with comprehensive scope going way beyond the market / selfish individual / energy-blind approach of the mainstream, towards a complex systems-dynamics energy and resource based outlook. For flavour, here’s a selection of headings from its Introduction : What is the economy? Ecology and the economy Society and the economy Doughnut economics Households, markets, the commons and the state Biomimicry for economic design Circular economies Distributive economies Caring economies Later sections go into detail about: Households Markets Commons The State Money and finance Global exchanges There’s a great overview video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCA9zJFMJTM

State governments bank at private banks. When they overspend, they borrow, and that debt compounds just like household debt. Federal governments bank at the central bank. When they spend more than they tax, they create fiat money that flows into the economy. Completely different mechanics. So why is California trying to fix a federal funding cut with a state tax? 🫤 Steve breaks this down in his latest video using Ravel©, showing what actually happens when you increase federal transfers instead. Spoiler: the state deficit vanishes and federal debt does NOT explode 🔥 He also walks through why the workers' share of GDP dropped from 64% to 58% in barely a decade, and what the monetary system has to do with it. Check it out here : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ufn_Z2RqI_c&views