More on Dueling Economists
A while back I linked to a music (rap) video comparing Keynes and Hayek’s respective economic theories. If you haven’t seen the video you should, it’s absolutely brilliant. Here’s some backstory on the making of the video, via the Von Mises Economics Blog. Excerpts below.
John Papola, maker of the Hayek-Keynes rap, presented his video and then gave a talk about how it was made.
All the technical details were fascinating. We learned about the creative process and how the music came to be written. We learned about the paths not taken and why they chose what they did. We heard about how John personally drove to Barnes and Nobel to pick up the copy of the General Theory that makes an appearance in the first scene. We heard about the marvelous 16-hour stretch of filming.
There were moments when John brought down the house. For example, he jokingly spoke about the affinity between libertarianism and rap. There is the believe in gun rights. And drug freedom. People laughed uproariously about that. But then he went one better: he said that after all the rap community is on the gold standard.
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