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February 04, 2026

The economics of hip hop

In a TED Talk released on Monday, I describe a decadelong effort to measure hip hop’s impact. My research team and I assembled a data set tracking the genre’s diffusion from the late 1980s onward. We compiled exposure measures from virtually every U.S. radio station between 1985 and 2002 and from the Billboard Hot 100 […] The post The economics of hip hop appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION. Related StoriesEffective tax rates for billionairesDoes Peer-Reviewed Research Help Predict Stock Re...

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