Hip-Hop Battle of the Century: Keynes vs. Hayek

Susana Polo

Published: Feb 17, 2010 11:19 am

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A brief perusal of Wikipedia shows that John Maynard Keynes and F. A. Hayek never fought each other on Celebrity Deathmatch. If this is something over which you might mourn, the you’ll be interested to know that Econstories.tv has a really nicely produced video depicting a rap battle between the two titans of economics.

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At first we were worried that we didn’t understand enough about economics to post this video. Then we remembered that nobody understands enough about economics, and we felt a little better.

Keynes and Hayek appear in a modern Manhattan to attend an economics conference. Intellectual discourse ensues.

(Econstories.tv via Boing Boing)

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Susana Polo thought she'd get her Creative Writing degree from Oberlin, work a crap job, and fake it until she made it into comics. Instead she stumbled into a great job: founding and running this very website (she's Editor at Large now, very fancy). She's spoken at events like Geek Girl Con, New York Comic Con, and Comic Book City Con, wants to get a Batwoman tattoo and write a graphic novel, and one of her canine teeth is in backwards.