A while back, I posted a Newshour clip about the making of a Keynes/Hayek rap video. The full video has been released, and it is awesome- high production value and high comedy. Keynes’ biographer Lord Skidelsky says of it, “Absolutely fair and brilliantly rhymed…It’s not a complete account of Keynes but it seems to be completely right.”
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Awesome- will have to forward along to my Macroeconomics prof!
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Hmmm.
A million dollar video
pretending Keynes and Hayek have similar insights into the economy
even professional babes
An economist might say it is an attempt to raise the profile of Hayek and reduce the impact of Keynes (since he is passed out on the bar — while Hayek is improbably the sober fellow)
Perhaps one would suspect, considering a million dollar free, professionally produced video is not something one sees every day, that there is a bit of a reach for the young and uneducated minds on behalf of Hayek.
Nah.
It’s no doubt just a fun thing some rich guy thought of doing.
A million–dollar video? Not unless you don’t know how to use a computer.
But yeah, there’s a top-secret conspiracy by the eeeeeeevil rich to subliminally force people to approve of Hayek. How did you ever crack the code?