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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... social science. We might expect that when a person encounters a disagreement with someone, he or she recognizes that the other person, if sufficiently intelligent and honest, is as likely to be right. To paraphrase Garrison Keillor, we ...
... social standing, education, or any other variable, determines how much a person's preference is to be weighted. Along these lines, one study found that the American public had more respect for bus drivers and baseball players than for ...
... social preferences do not themselves suggest a clear or nearly unanimous rank ordering? Why is it so unreasonable to look to other values to resolve deadlocked preferences? Economists have long treated merit goods as a kind of “add-on ...
... social reality. The economic method, taken alone, is poorly suited for evaluating such choices.8 Pure Paretian improvements, which make everybody better off, are hard to come by. So for most practical purposes, applied welfare economics ...
... social value of art is greater than what people are willing to pay for in the private marketplace. A subsidy, if ... social value from producing more art, as defined in terms of willingness to pay, would equal the social cost of ...
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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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