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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... typical project. Anecdotes of failure can easily mislead. We should not be surprised if a particular system produces much junk and offensive material. The most common benchmark uses “peaks” to compare one culture to another. Government ...
... typically bundle qualities together. Yet arguably a world with unbundled qualities is superior, since it allows consumers to pick and choose how much of each quality they want, and from which source. We cite “peaks” when making an ...
... Typically economists retreat to their intuition that satisfying preferences is somehow “real,” and that pursuing nonpreference values is religious, mystical, or paternalistic. The rest of the world, however, 8 Chapter 1.
... typically focus on “what is seen” and neglect “what is not seen,” namely the other projects and outputs that would have been funded with the money.12 One estimate (Wyszomirski 1999, p. 134), aimed at defending the New Deal's Works ...
... typical subsidy advocate does not (or at least need not) ignore efficiency. But many subsidy advocates subordinate efficiency to the aesthetic, whereas the economist subordinates the aesthetic to the individual preferences behind the ...
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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Good & Plenty: The Creative Successes of American Arts Funding Tyler Cowen Sin vista previa disponible - 2006 |