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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... greater public-sector involvement. They lament how 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 ...
... greater innovation and a greater degree of decentralized support for the arts.1 Finally, arts policy brings into relief critical questions in both policy evaluation and political philosophy. Man is not just a thinking being; he is also ...
... greater concern to most of the show's viewers. By siding with the consumer point of view, 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 ...
... greater value—for intrinsic reasons— than is reflected in individual preferences. This procedure, however, requires a common understanding on the relevant value trade-offs. It also requires that noneconomic values be squeezed into the ...
... greater skepticism about subsidies. Consumers spend most of their cultural time with commercially viable products. They watch television, buy popular novels, and listen to popular music; esoteric forms of high culture are of less ...
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 |
Other editions - View all
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 |