- December 11, 2011
- 8 Comments
- Blog, Featured
The EconStore is Live!
Just (barely) in time for the holiday spending season, we’re pleased to announce the launch of our all new EconStore. You’ll find a set of fun, high-quality EconStories branded t-shirts and merchandise designed by our fans through a design contest we conducted this past summer. The proceeds from EconStore sales go directly into funding new EconStories video projects.
No gift says you care quite like a t-shirt featuring your favorite dead economists. So give aggregate demand a little helping hand and check out the EconStore.
- August 4, 2011
- 15 Comments
- Blog
Help us design an EconStories T-Shirt!
We are excited to announce the EconStories T-Shirt design contest! We’re preparing to launch a merchandise store here on EconStories.tv which will be used to help fund our next project and we need your help. Get your creative juices flowing and submit your designs today. Tell other creative friends to give it a shot. Enter the contest with original designs. The winner will receive a cash prize and see their design adorned by the coolest economics fans on earth!
- July 6, 2011
- 3 Comments
- Blog
Get even more of the story behind “Fight of the Century”
John and Russ make an appearance on C-Span’s Q&A to discuss the background and ideas behind “Fight of the Century: Keynes vs. Hayek Round II”. See it right here in the embedded player after the jump.
- June 26, 2011
- 8 Comments
- Blog
EconStories featured on C-Span’s Q&A
This Sunday, June 26th (tonight) at 8pm eastern, 7pm central time and then again at 11/10c, Russ Roberts and John Papola will be appearing on C-Span’s “Q&A” program for a one hour discussion about EconStories.tv and our economic rap videos. Throughout the conversation, we walk section-by-section through “Fight of the Century” to delve into the ideas, intentions and backstory behind the production.
- May 2, 2011
- 24 Comments
- Blog, Stories
Get the Story Behind the Fight of the Century
Interested in learning more about the ideas debated in “Fight of the Century”? John and Russ discuss the ideas and thought processes behind the video in a new episode of EconTalk, available at EconTalk.org as well as on iTunes.
Then dig deeper by checking out the following links featuring economists and thinkers from across the spectrum.
- May 1, 2011
- 15 Comments
- Blog
EconStories now on iTunes!
Want to bring EconStories with you wherever you go? Download high quality audio versions of all of our content for your portable devices including “Fear the Boom and Bust”, “Fight of the Century” and our current set of mini-documentaries with the EconStories Podcast on iTunes!
- April 25, 2011
- 7 Comments
- Blog
Lace up your gloves for the “Fight of the Century”
We’re excited to announce the debut of our second economics music video, “Fight of the Century” this Thursday, April 28th, right here on EconStories.tv. In this new round between John Maynard Keynes and F. A. Hayek, the two economists battle over government’s role in our economy in terms of both spending and intervention more broadly.
- April 4, 2011
- 4 Comments
- Blog
Be a Part of the Next EconStories Video!
EconStories and Emergent Order are proud to announce “The Fight of the Century,” a music video film shoot taking place at the Drew University campus in Madison, New Jersey, on April 16 and 17, 2011. We are looking for fans to join us in this film shoot as extras.
- September 30, 2010
- 3 Comments
- Blog, Reactions
Reactions to “Fear the Boom and Bust”
From NPR to the New York Times, Ke$ha to Glenn Beck, people are talking about “Fear the Boom and Bust.”
- April 28, 2010
- 4 Comments
- Blog, Stories
Get the Story behind Fear the Boom and Bust
Want to learn more about the ideas presented in “Fear the Boom and Bust”? Start at the Daily Kos with “Smackdown: Keynes vs. Hayek”, a meticulous and exceptionally written line-by-line expansion of the ideas presented in “Fear the Boom and Bust”. Then continue to explore with the links below by scholars of both ideas. John [...]