Cultural Economics

Herausgegeben von Towse, Ruth; Khakee, Abdul

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Cultural economics as a field of research involves twoareas, culture and economy. These two areas have beentraditionally regarded as each other's antithesis. However,the economic aspects of culture have increasingly become amatter of everyday reality for persons working in thecultural field. The economy of culture has always been inthe focus of political interest. Political decisionsconcerning such priority areas as the development ofregional institutions, support to the artists and culturalprogrammes for children and youth have important economicimplications. This book deals with a range of topics incultural economics. It contains original papers byeconomists workingin the field from 15 different countriesand covers a host of both theoretical and practical issues,covering the performing arts, arts marketsand museums. Itrepresents an up-to-date statement of the application ofeconomic ideas to cultural questions.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer / Springer Berlin Heidelberg / Springer, Berlin
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-3-642-77330-3
• Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1992
• Seitenzahl: 308
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Dezember 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 242mm x 170mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 531g
• ISBN-13: 9783642773303
• ISBN-10: 3642773303
• Artikelnr.: 36121918

Autorenporträt

Ruth Towse is Professor of Economics of Creative Industries at Bournemouth University and Professor Emerita at Erasmus Univeristy, Rotterdam. Professor Towse is one of the world s leading cultural economists and has taught in universities in the UK, the Netherlands, Italy and Thailand. She was Joint Editor of the Journal of Cultural Economics from 1993-2002 and President of the Association for Cultural Economics International from 2006-2008. She is a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

Inhaltsangabe

Section I: Policy and Policy Evaluation.- 1. Economics, Cultural Values and Cultural Policies.- 2. Public Choice and Public Funding of the Arts.- 3. Problems of Planning Cultural Programs under Endogenous Tastes.- 4 The Rationale for Public Funding of a National Museum.- 5. Assessing and Financing Cultural Investments.- 6. The Wexford Opera Festival: A Case for Public Funding?.- 7. Trends in Art Policy: The Dutch Case.- Section II: Pricing Issues.- 8. Some Unanswered Questions in the Economics of Art.- 9. Auction of Works of Art.- 10. Factors Affecting Price on the Contemporary Art Market.- 11. The Classification of Prices: An International Comparative Inquiry into the Admission Prices for Cultural Events.- Section III: Audiences for the Arts.- 12. Art Productivity in the Information Age.- 13. Risk, Risk Aversion and the Demand for Performing Arts.- 14. Museum Visitor Surveys: An Overview, 1930-1990.- Section IV: Trade in Cultural Goods.- 15. Considerations in Adapting Industrial Organization Theory to the International Trade in Cultural Goods.- 16. The Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement: Provisions Directly and Indirectly Affecting Trade in Cultural Product.- Section V: Artists' Earnings.- 17. Why and How to Define an Artist: Types of Definitions and Their Implications for Empirical Research Results.- 18. Toward a Unified Theory of the Determinants of the Earnings of Artists.- 19. Artists as Workers.- 20. The Earnings of Singers: An Economic Analysis.- Section VI: Country Studies.- 21. On the Economics of the Performing Arts in the USSR and the USA: A Preliminary Comparison of the Data.- 22. Cultural Policy in an Era of Budgetary Stringency and Fiscal Decentralization: The U.S. Experience.- 23. A Cultural Good Called Venice.- 24. Thaliametrics - A Case Study ofCopenhagen Theatre Market.- 25. Art Costs and Subsidies: The Case of Norwegian Performing Arts.- 26. Socio-Economic Characteristics of Audiences for Western Classical Music in Japan: A Statistical Analysis.- Author's index.