Hip-Hop Economics

November 26, 2014

Economic heavyweights Keynes and Hayek duke it out in Robert’s hip-hop music video which has over seven million views

In This Episode

Economic ideas can be a hard pill to swallow for non-academics, and yet virtually everyone can benefit from understanding them. Economist Russ Roberts discusses how he uses stories, rap music and the internet to help the medicine go down.

Russ Roberts, author, research fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University
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