GMU Professor To Record Hayekian Hip-Hop Featuring "Bling, Babes, Limos"

Peter Suderman | October 16, 2009

Or maybe that headline ought to read GMU "presentz":

"We just learned that Russ Roberts, a professor of economics at George Mason University, who was our second choice for the anti-Keynes position, is shooting a rap video about Keynes and Hayek next week in New York. He has written the lyrics (they are quite good), hired rappers and musicians, and tapped professional music video producers — there will be bling, babes, limos, the works."

(via Bruce Bartlett)

Needless to say, I'll be keeping tabs on this important developing story. In the meantime, however, fans of libertarian hip-hop will have to keep themselves occupied with material like this and this:

Comments

|10.16.09 @ 2:03PM|#

Since every string seems to be on a Hollywood SF drift today, all I'm going to say is:

I've got a bad feeling about this.

John Tagliaferro|10.16.09 @ 2:04PM|#

Peter,

You SugarFreed the second link.

Attorney|10.16.09 @ 2:07PM|#

I recently read his novel/lesson-in-libertarian-theory The Invisible Heart and found it to be really very good.

ap|10.16.09 @ 2:29PM|#

that...was not as terrible as I thought it would be.

|10.16.09 @ 2:50PM|#

Yeah, I was about to leave a comment about how ridiculous and ill-advised it is for average joes to put topical commentary into hip-hop form. Because it invariably comes off clunky and clueless and at best anachronistic.

But then I watched that video, and the guy genuinely has good flow and lyrical skills. So, never mind!

¢attalax|10.16.09 @ 2:41PM|#

You livin' so trife, you need Mises in ya life.

Abdul|10.16.09 @ 2:50PM|#

Isn't rap music already libertarian? It's songs about fuck tha' police, selling drugs, prostitutes, and massive amounts of self-centered egotism.

Mike Laursen|10.16.09 @ 4:03PM|#

Roberts is a wonderful communicator of libertarian economic ideas, but he is very white bread. But, who knows, maybe he'll pull it off.

Paul|10.16.09 @ 10:53PM|#

Holy shit! That video used the image of Elian Gonzales being removed from his home by the friendly gun-toting feds.

I remember being fucking horrified by my government on that day.

I was called "right-wing" by my "liberal" friends.

Les|10.17.09 @ 1:23AM|#

One of the legitimate uses of government, it seems to me, is making sure that in-laws who don't approve of my parenting can't take my child from me.