Good and Plenty: The Creative Successes of American Arts FundingPrinceton University Press, 2009 M01 10 - 216 pages 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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The Creative Successes of American Arts Funding Tyler Cowen. 2%0/() 27%// The Creative Successes of American Arts Funding Tyler Cowen Princeton University Press Princeton and Oxford Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University Press Published ...
... American arts funding/Tyler Cowen. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN-13: 978-0-691-12042-3 ISBN-10: 0-691-12042-0 (hardcover: alk. paper) 1. United States—Cultural policy. 2. Art and State—United states. 3 ...
The Creative Successes of American Arts Funding Tyler Cowen. Acknowledgments. Tom Bradshaw, Bryan Caplan, Dana Gioia, Robin Hanson, Eli Lehrer, and Titus Levi have offered very useful comments and discussions. I also thank Peter Dougherty ...
... American artists are underfunded and undervalued by the state, relative to their western European counterparts. Why are the two sides to this debate so far apart? How can two groups of people, each well intentioned, look at the same ...
... American system, at least once it is properly understood. The American model encourages artistic creativity, keeps the politicization of art to a minimum, and brings economics and aesthetics into a symbiotic relationship. That being ...
Contents
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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 No preview available - 2010 |
Good & Plenty: The Creative Successes of American Arts Funding Tyler Cowen No preview available - 2006 |