Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Cool Thing: Fear the Boom and Bust (Econ that won't put you to sleep)



How often is Economics the subject of a rap video? Okay, well you might be able to think of a few references. But how many rap videos do you know that exclusively star dead economists? Yeah didn't think so.

Here is the "whacked" description from NPR, the crazy guys that put this together.

"In Fear the Boom and Bust, John Maynard Keynes and F. A. Hayek, two of the great economists of the 20th century, come back to life to attend an economics conference on the economic crisis. Before the conference begins, and at the insistence of Lord Keynes, they go out for a night on the town and sing about why there's a "boom and bust" cycle in modern economies and good reason to fear it."

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