The unemployment rate that we hear the press report isn't an accurate reflection of the real unemployment rate. They lie because they need us to believe we live in a society that's working in the interests of regular people. It doesn't.
Lee interviews the economics professor and author of "Debunking Economics," Steve Keen. Keen's scholarship gives insight into the ways that neoclassical economic models misunderstand climate change. These models therefore stop our political institutions from responding to the crisis and provide cover for corporations to continue their polluting business practices.