Fight of the Century: Keynes vs. Hayek Round Two
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0:04 - 0:07I’m watchin’ you.
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0:12 - 0:15Lord, Keynes, wow! It’s, it, it’s such an honor.
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0:15 - 0:17Indeed, sir.
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0:17 - 0:21Please, just go, just go right on through.
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0:23 - 0:25woo, woo
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0:26 - 0:30Identification, please.
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0:33 - 0:35Hayek?
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0:35 - 0:38No. Hayek, like high explosives.
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0:39 - 0:41High explosives?
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0:41 - 0:42Yeah.
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0:42 - 0:46We have a 10-66, HQ I repeat, we have a 10-66.
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0:46 - 0:49[Copy that, Mike. Proceed.]
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0:49 - 0:54What is a 10-66? That was just an example of how to pronounce my name.
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1:02 - 1:03Ladies and gentlemen.
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1:03 - 1:05Members of the committee.
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1:05 - 1:08We are here today to consider the impact
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1:08 - 1:11of government spending on our economy.
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1:11 - 1:13We’re fortunate to have two world-reknowned
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1:13 - 1:18economists to offer their testimony on the matter.
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1:18 - 1:21I see you took a detour down the road to serfdom.
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1:21 - 1:22Talk about the end of laissez-faire.
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1:22 - 1:24Well, shake it off, Freddie,
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1:24 - 1:26I’m not pullin’ any punches in there.
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1:26 - 1:28I’m ready. Are you?
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1:29 - 1:33Prepare for the return of the master.
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1:35 - 1:37John Maynard Keynes
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1:37 - 1:39F. A. Hayek
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1:39 - 1:41Round Two
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1:41 - 1:43Round 2.0
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1:44 - 1:45Same economists,
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1:45 - 1:47same believes,
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1:48 - 1:50new microphones,
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1:50 - 1:52new moustaches.
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1:54 - 1:56Here we are… Peace out! Great recession.
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1:56 - 1:59Thanks to me, as you see, we’re not in a depression.
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1:59 - 2:01Recovery, destiny, if you follow my lesson,
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2:01 - 2:04Lord Keynes, here I come, line up for the procession.
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2:04 - 2:07We brought out the shovels but we’re still in a ditch
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2:07 - 2:09and still digging, don’t you think that it’s time for a switch
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2:09 - 2:12from that hair of the dog? Friend, the party is over,
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2:12 - 2:15the long run is here, it’s time to get sober!
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2:15 - 2:17Are you kidding? My cure works perfectly fine.
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2:17 - 2:20Have a look, the great recession ended back in ’09.
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2:20 - 2:23I deserve credit. Things would have been worse.
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2:23 - 2:25All the estimates prove it, I’ll quote chapter and verse.
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2:25 - 2:28Econometricians, they’re ever so pious.
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2:28 - 2:31Are they doing real science or confirming their bias?
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2:31 - 2:33Their “Keynesian” models are tidy and neat,
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2:33 - 2:36but that top down approach is a fatal conceit.
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2:36 - 2:40Which way should we choose?
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2:40 - 2:42More bottom up or more top down?
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2:42 - 2:44The fight continues,
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2:44 - 2:48Keynes and Hayek’s second round.
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2:48 - 2:50It’s time to weigh in
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2:50 - 2:53more from the top or from the ground.
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2:53 - 2:56Let’s listen to the greats,
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2:56 - 2:58Keynes and Hayek throwing down.
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2:58 - 3:00We could have done better, had we only spent more,
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3:00 - 3:02too bad that only happens when there’s a World War.
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3:02 - 3:05You can carp all you want about stats and regression,
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3:05 - 3:08do you deny World War II cut short the Depression?
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3:08 - 3:11Wow. One data point and you’re jumping for joy,
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3:11 - 3:13the last time I checked, wars only destroy.
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3:13 - 3:16There was no multiplier, consumption just shrank
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3:16 - 3:18as we used scarce resources for every new tank.
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3:18 - 3:21Pretty perverse to call that prosperity,
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3:21 - 3:24rationed meat, rationed butter, a life of austerity.
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3:24 - 3:27When that war spending ended, your friends cried disaster,
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3:27 - 3:32yet the economy thrived and grew faster.
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3:34 - 3:37You too only see what you want to see,
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3:37 - 3:40the spending on war clearly goosed GDP.
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3:40 - 3:42Unemployment was over, almost down to zero,
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3:42 - 3:45that’s why I’m the master, that’s why I’m the hero.
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3:45 - 3:48Creating employment’s a straigtforward craft,
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3:48 - 3:50when the nation’s at war, and there’s a draft.
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3:50 - 3:53If every worker was staffed in the army and fleet
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3:53 - 3:57we’d have full employment and nothing to eat.
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4:02 - 4:05Which way should we choose?
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4:05 - 4:07More bottom up or more top down?
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4:07 - 4:10The fight continues,
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4:10 - 4:13Keynes and Hayek’s second round.
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4:13 - 4:15It’s time to weigh in
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4:15 - 4:18more from the top or from the ground.
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4:18 - 4:21Let’s listen to the greats,
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4:21 - 4:23Keynes and Hayek throwing down.
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4:23 - 4:25Jobs are the means, not the ends in themselves,
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4:25 - 4:28people work to live better, to put food on the shelves.
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4:28 - 4:30Real growth means production of what people demand,
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4:30 - 4:33that’s entrepreneurship not your central plan.
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4:33 - 4:36My solution is simple and easy to handle,
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4:36 - 4:39it’s spending that matters, why’s that such a scandal?
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4:39 - 4:41Money sloshes through the pipes and the sluices
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4:41 - 4:43revitalizing the economy’s juices.
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4:43 - 4:46It’s just like an engine that’s stalled and gone dark,
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4:46 - 4:49to bring it to life, we need a quick spark.
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4:49 - 4:51Spending’s the life blood that gets the flow going,
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4:51 - 4:54where it goes doesn’t matter, just get spending flowing.
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4:54 - 4:57You see slack in some sectors as a “general glut”,
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4:57 - 5:00but some sectors are healthy, only some in a rut.
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5:00 - 5:02So spending’s not free, that’s the heart of the matter,
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5:02 - 5:05too much is wasted as cronies get fatter.
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5:05 - 5:08The economy’s not a car, there’s no engine to stall,
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5:08 - 5:11no expert can fix it, there’s no “it” at all.
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5:11 - 5:13The economy’s us, we don’t need a mechanic,
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5:13 - 5:16put away the wrenches, the economy’s organic.
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5:16 - 5:19Which way should we choose?
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5:19 - 5:22More bottom up or more top down?
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5:22 - 5:24The fight continues,
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5:24 - 5:27Keynes and Hayek’s second round.
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5:27 - 5:29It’s time to weigh in
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5:29 - 5:32more from the top or from the ground.
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5:32 - 5:35Let’s listen to the greats,
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5:35 - 5:37Keynes and Hayek throwing down.
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5:37 - 5:39So what would you do to help those unemployed?
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5:39 - 5:42This is the question you seem to avoid.
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5:42 - 5:45When we’re in a mess, would you have us just wait,
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5:45 - 5:47doing nothing until markets equilibrate?
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5:47 - 5:50I don’t want to do nothing, there’s plenty to do,
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5:50 - 5:53the question I ponder is who plans for whom?
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5:53 - 5:56Do I plan for myself or leave it to you?
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5:56 - 5:58I want plans by the many, not by the few.
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5:58 - 6:01Let’s not repeat what created our troubles,
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6:01 - 6:04I want real growth not a series of bubbles.
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6:04 - 6:06Stop bailing out losers, let prices work,
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6:06 - 6:09if we don’t try to steer them they won’t go berserk.
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6:09 - 6:12Come on, are you kidding? Don’t Wall Street’s gyrations
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6:12 - 6:14challenge your world view of self-regulation?
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6:14 - 6:17Even you must admit that the lesson we’ve learned
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6:17 - 6:20is more oversight’s needed or else we’ll get burned.
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6:20 - 6:22Oversight? The government’s long been in bed
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6:22 - 6:25with those Wall Street execs and the firms that they’ve led.
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6:25 - 6:27Capitalism’s about profit and loss,
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6:27 - 6:30you bail out the losers, there’s no end to the cost.
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6:30 - 6:33The lesson I’ve learned? It’s how little we know,
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6:33 - 6:36the world is complex, not some circular flow.
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6:36 - 6:38The economy’s not a class you can master in college,
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6:38 - 6:41to think otherwise is the pretense of knowledge.
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6:41 - 6:45Which way should we choose?
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6:45 - 6:47More bottom up or more top down?
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6:47 - 6:49The fight continues,
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6:49 - 6:52Keynes and Hayek’s second round.
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6:52 - 6:54It’s time to weigh in
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6:54 - 6:58more from the top or from the ground.
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6:58 - 7:00Let’s listen to the greats,
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7:00 - 7:02Keynes and Hayek throwing down.
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7:02 - 7:05You get on your high horse and you’re off to the races,
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7:05 - 7:08I look at the world on a case by case basis.
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7:08 - 7:10When people are suffering I roll up my sleeves
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7:10 - 7:13and do what I can to cure our disease.
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7:13 - 7:15The future’s uncertain, our outlooks are frail,
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7:15 - 7:18that’s why free markets are so prone to fail.
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7:18 - 7:21In a volatile world we need more discretion,
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7:21 - 7:24so state intervention can counter depression.
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7:24 - 7:26People aren’t chessmen you move on a board
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7:26 - 7:29at your whim – their dreams and desires ignored.
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7:29 - 7:32With political incentives, discretion’s a joke,
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7:32 - 7:34those dials you’re twisting, just mirrors and smoke.
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7:34 - 7:37We need stable rules and real market prices
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7:37 - 7:40so prosperity emerges and cuts short the crisis.
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7:40 - 7:42Give us a chance so we can discover
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7:42 - 7:45the most valuable ways to serve one another.
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7:48 - 7:51Which way should we choose?
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7:51 - 7:54More bottom up or more top down?
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7:54 - 7:56The fight continues,
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7:56 - 7:59Keynes and Hayek’s second round.
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7:59 - 8:01It’s time to weigh in
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8:01 - 8:04more from the top or from ground.
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8:04 - 8:07Let’s listen to the greats,
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8:07 - 8:11Keynes and Hayek throwing down.
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8:21 - 8:23Which way should we choose?
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8:23 - 8:26More bottom up or more top down?
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8:26 - 8:28The fight continues,
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8:29 - 8:31Keynes and Hayek’s second round.
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8:31 - 8:34It’s time to weigh in
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8:34 - 8:37more from the top or from ground.
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8:37 - 8:39Let’s listen to the greats,
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8:39 - 8:43Keynes and Hayek throwing down.
- Title:
- Fight of the Century: Keynes vs. Hayek Round Two
- Description:
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"Fight of the Century" is the new economics hip-hop music video by John Papola and Russ Roberts at http://EconStories.tv.
According to the National Bureau of Economic Research, the Great Recession ended almost two years ago, in the summer of 2009. Yet we're all uneasy. Job growth has been disappointing. The recovery seems fragile. Where should we head from here? Is that question even meaningful? Can the government steer the economy or have past attempts helped create the mess we're still in?
In "Fight of the Century", Keynes and Hayek weigh in on these central questions. Do we need more government spending or less? What's the evidence that government spending promotes prosperity in troubled times? Can war or natural disasters paradoxically be good for an economy in a slump? Should more spending come from the top down or from the bottom up? What are the ultimate sources of prosperity?
Keynes and Hayek never agreed on the answers to these questions and they still don't. Let's listen to the greats. See Keynes and Hayek throwing down in "Fight of the Century"!
Starring Billy and Adam from http://www.billyandadam.com
- Video Language:
- English
- Duration:
- 10:10
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