Who would have thought that one way for Radio 4 to catch the attention of a younger audience would be to organise a debate about two dead economists?
Around 1000 people, estimated average age 23, queued around the block at the London School at Economics to attend a Radio 4 debate about the ideas of John Maynard Keynes and Freidrich August von Hayek.
A large lecture theatre and two overspill rooms still didn't provide enough seats to meet demand.
The argument continued on Twitter & in the pub afterwards.
Houghton Street may not have seen anything like this since the 1960s lectures by the likes of Enoch Powell & Malcolm X. Or appearances by The Beatles on Ready Steady Go
Links
Is Economics the new Rock 'n' Roll?
Keynes Vs. Hayek
Taking Hayek Seriously
