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On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 9:01 AM, Aaron Stark <aaronsta at gmail.com> wrote:
> "Fear the Boom and Bust" a Hayek vs. Keynes Rap Anthem
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0nERTFo-Sk
> For a transcript, see the bottom of the page here -
> http://econstories.tv/home.html .
>
> This is another data point for the discussion from a few months ago
> about the growing popularity of right-libertarian ideas in the U.S..
> Right-libertarians seem to be getting some political traction by
> claiming, as in this video, to be the underdogs, the beleaguered few
> whose ideas have never been tried and would solve the economic crisis
> if they were tried. Given the format, I'm guessing this is targeted
> towards youth and the youngish "creative class" -- I learned about it
> from internet sociologist danah boyd's favorable retweet
> http://twitter.com/zephoria .
>
> The video was produced by John Papola and Russell Roberts . Roberts is
> a professor of Economics at George Mason University, and Papola is
> some TV/marketing guy. Both, according to the About page
> (http://econstories.tv/about.html) are apparently right-libertarian.
> The video is framed as a "debate", but of course Hayek, presented here
> as anti-stimulus, gets the final word.
>
> Luckily, it's pretty awful hip-hop.
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-- Henry Ford told a visitor to the Ford Motor Company that there were exactly 4,719 parts in a finished car.
Impressed, the visitor asked the supervising engineer if the number was accurate.
“I’m sure I don’t know,” said the engineer. “I can’t think of a more useless piece of information.”