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American Spectator:

Remember back in grade school when your mother encouraged you to put memorization lessons to music? Turns out, she might have been on to something. In the spirit of instruction meets entertainment, George Mason University economist Russ Roberts and former executive producer at Spike TV John Papola have joined forces again to create a video blending the study of economics with the sound of hip-hop.

Roberts and Papola produced a similar video last year -- "Fear the Boom and Bust" -- which they released on their site, Econstories.com and YouTube. A philosophical tribute to the opposing economic positions of renowned economists F.A. Hayek and John Maynard Keynes, the video received upwards of 3 million hits worldwide and high school and college professors nationwide show the video and distribute the lyrics to students.

This new video -- "Fight of the Century: Keynes v. Hayek Round Two" -- is a literal and figurative one: Hayek and Keynes square off in a congressional hearing that morphs into a prize fight complete with economists pulling punches -- this all wrapped up in hip-hop even Kanye West might like and lyrics Adam Smith could have penned. As it stands, the video, released a week ago, has garnered about half a million hits on YouTube; thousands of people "like" it on Facebook.