Steve Keen

Steve Keen was one of the handful of economists to realise that a serious economic crisis was coming our way, and to publicly warn of it from as early as December 2005.

This, and his pioneering work on modelling debt-deflation, resulted in him winning the Revere Award from the Real World Economics Review for being the economist whose work is most likely to prevent a future financial crisis (http://rwer.wordpress.com/2010/05/13/keen-roubini-and-baker-win-revere-award-for-economics-2/). He maintains a highly influential blog on economics (www.debtdeflation.com/blogs)

His book "Debunking Economics: The naked emperor dethroned?", is a classic exposition of why conventional economic theory is not only wrong, but more of a threat to the survival of capitalism than any number of left-wing revolutionaries.