Friday, December 07, 2007

In the Hamptons

A tragic tale in song about those South of the Highway city people. Via Professor Greg Mankiw's blog for intro econ at Harvard.



10 comments:

Anonymous said...

that was interesting. they should have put the words along the bottom so you could follow along.

but other than that, i thought it was pretty good. i don't hear very often people praiging the idea of the trickle down effect. (the dropped water bottle) i very for that idea.

Anonymous said...

I really don't like country music like this. Is this real? hahaha.. who is this guy? Why the hamptons?

Anonymous said...

They need subtitles for some parts of the song. Is this song resent. Is that really that guy's voice it sounds to deep.

Anonymous said...

haha that was weird. Sarah im guessing the hamptons cause we live in a bubble. i like the trickle down joke haha

Anonymous said...

its kinda hard to tell whether he thinks something should be done to help wall street, or making fun of the idea. while he makes points about the trickle down effect, he really seems to mock what stock traders complain about

Anonymous said...

i didn't think it was catchy enough.. it could have been alot funnier becuase it's a good concept.. and is that a real country singer?

Anonymous said...

Who are these people? It's crazy how they are singing about the Hamptons. This song is funny to me. I like the other song when the police were being imitated. He's right about it being expensive in the Hamptons.

Anonymous said...

haha that was pretty amusing. its a good way to get students interested in the already fascinating field of economics, while still providing the viewer with economic principles.

Besides being entertaining, he gives us ways to relate to the song. Being from the Hamptons, i know exactly who he is talking about and can see the reasons he speaks out against them. He gives us a reason to like him since he sees these "south of the highway people" just as we do.

Anonymous said...

I hate the elvis song and especially this song but i see what they are saying about the housing in the Hamptons although not everyone is rich.

Anonymous said...

What an... interesting video. The guys is kind of wierd and annoying but what he said about the hamptons was true. I liked it though. The idea with the split water trickling down was quit clever.