• David Keen on Why Failed Policies Keep Going

    In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

    Hosted by Andrew Keen, Keen On features conversations with some of the world’s leading thinkers and writers about the economic, political, and technological issues being discussed in the news, right now.

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    Andrew talks to David Keen, co-author of Wreckonomics, about why we find ourselves locked into so many failed and counterproductive economic, environmental, and political policies.

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    David Keen is a professor of conflict studies at the Department of International Development at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He has researched civil wars, global wars and disasters. He is the author of The Benefits of Famine (1994) and Useful Enemies (2012), among other books, and winner of the Edgar Graham prize.


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