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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... questions in both policy evaluation and political philosophy. Man is not just a thinking being; he is also an imagining being and a creating being. Cultural policy focuses our attention on how we resolve potential clashes between ...
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... questions of how to define peaks, or how to weight quality versus quantity. This relatively straightforward approach to commensurability, no matter how much it horrifies the art purist, means the economic approach will be invoked ...
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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 |