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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... invest popular culture with the same qualities they have found in high culture. The critical commentary on Seinfeld, for instance, does not pursue the form that fan discussions of the show would take, such as who is the funniest ...
... investment, even if it produces some first-rate books. Frederic Bastiat, writing in the nineteenth century, argued ... invested in the five core art projects of the WPA produced artistic outputs later worth $450 million. In reality those ...
The Creative Successes of American Arts Funding Tyler Cowen. invested in the stock market at the end of 1934, as of ... investment in paintings might look better. Furthermore these pictures yielded enjoyment in the interim. Nonetheless ...
... invests in an undervalued artistic cluster. For this result we must look toward multiple and varied sources of financial support. No single firm, agency, or individual has proven adept at picking artistic winners across a large span of ...
... investing in one good idea we are always forsaking another good idea. In essence those studies list gross benefits rather ... invest resources to attract artistic activities from other regions. If the arts do bring net benefits, these ...
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 |