Documentary Of The Week: Can We Avoid Another Financial Crisis? About one year ago Steve Keen discussed money, the economy, and the causes of financial crisis at the Bournemouth Labour Party members' meeting. Please share this article - Go to very top of page, right hand side, for social media buttons. From Steve Keen (born 28 March 1953) is an Australian economist and author. He considers himself a post-Keynesian, criticising neoclassical economics as inconsistent, unscientific and empirically unsupported. The major influences on Keen's thinking about economics include John Maynard Keynes, Karl Marx, Hyman Minsky, Piero Sraffa, Augusto Graziani, Joseph Alois Schumpeter, Thorstein Veblen, and Francois Quesnay. Hyman Minsky's financial instability hypothesis forms the main basis of his major contribution to economics[1] which mainly concentrates on mathematical modelling and simulation of financial instability. He is a notable critic of the Australian property bubble, as he sees it.