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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... requires a common understanding on the relevant value trade-offs. It also requires that noneconomic values be squeezed into the economic framework. Many art lovers wish to keep the idea of the merit good but jettison the underlying ...
... require government subsidy. Second, social benefits are not unique to the arts. Most productive activities bring social benefits to large numbers of people. Most kinds of economic activity create new jobs, raise the tax base, and ...
... requires a sacrifice of equality. The threshold argument and the perfectionist argument operate together to reinforce intuitions in favor of subsidies.19 If we accept this portrait, subsidies appear to be a good deal from the standpoint ...
... require more decentralization. Artistic discovery, for instance, is rarely a matter of brute force, or amassing enough laborers to work on perfecting a single technology. Rather we are hoping that the artist can “look at things ...
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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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Good & Plenty: The Creative Successes of American Arts Funding Tyler Cowen Sin vista previa disponible - 2006 |