Old School Rap at GMU

|Peter Boettke|

Ok, I asked for a recording of the Market Process Shuffle, and here it is.

MPShuffle

 Written, produced and performed by Roy Cordato.  Roy also rose to fame during the 1980s as one of the leading wrestling commentators on the East Coast.  I don't think we have any pictures from his TV Show, which I think was called "Inside the Square Circle."

Paul Samuelson remarked once that as economics evolved it lost the wonderful characters who did economics in his youth -- personalities that were bigger than life.  For all the students at GMU currently (or in the recent past), listen to the lyrics in Cordato's song.  The intellectual commitment he expresses and the uniqueness of the opportunity at GMU to study Austrian ideas was what all of us at CSMP thought -- even prior to Buchanan winning the Nobel in 1986.  

Do you all still have that sense of purpose?  If so, express it; if not, explain why?

Comments

[Roy Cordato]

Plus, where else can you go to hear the name of Bohm-Bawerk included in a rap song?

[Nick]

Roy do you mind if I put this on youtube? Perhaps with some amateurish accompanying images & effects? (& with full credit to you of course)

[Roy Cordato]

be my guest.

[Roy Cordato]

A little background--I wrote this in the late summer early fall of 1985 (as Pete notes, before Buchanan received the Nobel). I had recently finished my coursework and prelims and was just beginning a temporary position at the University of Hartford. It was recorded at a friend's recording studio in Middletown CT, an amazing jazz guitarist named Norman Johnson. Norman's studio has since become extremely successful. Listening to this for the first time in years I think it's a real snapshot of where the Austrian movement was in 1985--sort of a time capsule.

[Lawrence H. White]

I just listened to the recording. Wow. I was surprised to hear my name mentioned (thanks, Roy), but now I feel immortalized!