Brand new course of short lectures starting next week
Short (15-25) minute lectures Wednesdays at 1PM New York time, continuing long lectures every Thursday at same time
It’s been a long process, but after accepting a “cold call” proposal from a marketing company late last year, I am finally teaching the course I wanted to teach all along: a large set of short lectures for new students of economics (whether young or old).
The new short lectures course—“Rebel Economist Mastermind”—starts on Wednesday October 25th 2023, at 1pm New York time. Here’s a sample, a 20-minute lecture which explains both the Great Depression and the Roaring Twenties that preceded it, using my Minsky software:
Generally speaking, I’m also marketing my courses how I’d like to market them as well. Click on the next link to see the video. After about eight minutes of the video, the signup link will appear below it.
That’s of course my marketing company’s approach. But to cut to the chase (I’m not one for wasting time), the short lectures course (“Rebel Economist Mastermind”) costs $49 a month, with a $9 entry fee so that you can test them out—if you don’t like them, you can cancel in the first two weeks, before you pay the $49. The long lectures course—“Rebel Economist Diamond”, which is now into its 4th round—costs $497 for a year. You can also cancel out of that during the first month, at no cost.
If you like the idea of trying out these lectures already—and don’t want to sit through a ten minute video to do it (though I must say that I enjoyed recording it)—then here’s the direct link to the signup page:
Rebel Economist Mastermind - Monthly | Dr. Steve Keen (profstevekeen.me)
Finally, a word about the marketing company that first approached me with the idea of running these courses. Their initial marketing ideas were suitable for a FOMO (“Fear Of Missing Out”) product, and that’s not me. Some of the initial marketing made me cringe, but I stuck with them anyway, because I liked the company’s principal, even though I thought—correctly, as it turns out—that the marketing approach would turn off many people who would otherwise have signed up.
I’m glad I did stick with Jordan and his team, because they’ve finally realised that I’m right about my audience—which is more FONU (“Fear Of Not Understanding”) that FOMO—and they’re now marketing me properly.
They also bring something to the table that I simply can’t do: marketing itself. They’ve put together the payments system, they make the short videos (including editing my promo video above), they handle the follow up with customers, etc. I have neither the time nor the knowledge required to do that. So please forgive them for their earlier, annoying marketing. They’re good people, otherwise I wouldn’t have stuck with them this long.
I hope you do sign up up to either the $49 a month short lectures course, or the $497 a year long lectures course. I’m proud of the content myself, and the over 200 people who’ve already signed up to the “Rebel Economist Diamond” course have really enjoyed taking part. I hope to see you in one course or the other, starting next week.
Gee Steve, all these years, I thought we were helping people get rich (doing a pretty good job too) by addressing the systemic subsidy to capital from surplus labour.
Oh yeah, nobody listens to marketing people, except in business school. Ivy alert. 😂