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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... economic and aesthetic values. Here more than just the arts is on the table. Our ability to reconcile economic and aesthetic values is a general prerequisite of rational policy evaluation. Moving to yet larger questions, we cannot have ...
... economic objectives. A state—in particular the American state—can be involved with matters aesthetic without losing its liberal character. We also will see that, counterintuitively, a rich diversity of artistic achievement is compatible ...
... economic approach, high art is simply another minority taste and holds no special normative status. The economic approach treats the critic as simply another consumer, albeit with different intellectual and material endowments. A ...
... economics serves as a radical attempt to demystify the perspective of the critic. That is one reason why critics do not like the economic approach. The Problem of Commensurability The aesthetic approach has a hard time making aesthetic ...
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 |