Good and Plenty: The Creative Successes of American Arts FundingPrinceton University Press, 2009 M01 10 - 216 páginas Americans agree about government arts funding in the way the women in the old joke agree about the food at the wedding: it's terrible--and such small portions! Americans typically either want to abolish the National Endowment for the Arts, or they believe that public arts funding should be dramatically increased because the arts cannot survive in the free market. It would take a lover of the arts who is also a libertarian economist to bridge such a gap. Enter Tyler Cowen. In this book he argues why the U.S. way of funding the arts, while largely indirect, results not in the terrible and the small but in Good and Plenty--and how it could result in even more and better. |
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... means for improving the American system. Insofar as we wish to use direct subsidies, we should restructure them to encourage greater innovation and a greater degree of decentralized support for the arts.1 Finally, arts policy brings ...
... mean. How many Gershwin songs sum up to a Shostakovich symphony? Is a Haydn string quartet better than a Hemingway short story? How does a Blake poem compare to a modern ballet performance? When evaluating a government policy or a ...
... means the economic approach will be invoked repeatedly to adjudicate disputes. Analogously, philosopher and economist Henry Sidgwick argued that utilitarianism, whatever its apparent failings, was the only philosophy that could sensibly ...
... means of dismissing nonpreference values from the overall policy evaluation. Economists often accuse other methods of policy evaluation of paternalism, but this is more of an ad hominem attack than an argument. It is paternalism to ...
... means that the net benefits of any single project are low, zero, or perhaps even negative on average. By investing in one good idea we are always forsaking another good idea. In essence those studies list gross benefits rather than net ...
Contenido
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The Genius of the American System | 31 |
Are They Too Conservative? | 65 |
4 Copyright and the Future of Decentralized Incentives | 101 |
5 Toward a Beautiful and Liberal Future | 133 |
Notes | 153 |
References | 169 |
Index | 189 |
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Good and Plenty: The Creative Successes of American Arts Funding Tyler Cowen Vista previa limitada - 2009 |
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