Rockonomics: What the Music Industry Can Teach Us About Economics (and Our Future)

The "Superstar Economy." Crowd Sourcing. Threats to IP (Intellectual Property). These and other economic themes that play out every day can be explained by the familiarity we all have with the music business.

That's the extremely clever idea behind Rockonomics, which was a paper and then a speech Krueger delivered to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2013.

In the tradition of books by Tim Harford and Steven Levitt (Freakonomics), Krueger's music metaphor illustrates the hopes, uncertainties and threats of the economic forces that influence our lives.