The Economics of the Arts

ISBN-13: 9780367307066 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 280 str.

Opis

This book focuses on almost all the outstanding problems of the performing and visual arts: opera, ballet, modern dance, orchestral concerts, theater, museums, and galleries, but unfortunately not television, radio and films, and not jazz or pop music.

Spis treści

Preface: Recent Developments in the Economics of the Performing Arts -- Introduction: What is the Economics of the Arts About? -- The Rationale for Public Subsidies to the Arts -- Reasons for Subsidizing American Theater -- Arguments for Public Support of the Performing Arts -- What's Wrong with the Arts Is What's Wrong with Society1 -- Welfare Economics and Public Subsidies to the Arts1 -- Evaluating Public Expenditure on the Arts -- Cultural Accounting1 -- Does the Arts Council Know What It Is Doing? -- The Arts Council and Its Critics with A Reply -- Rationalising Social Expenditure–The Arts -- A Survey of American and British Audiences for the Performing Arts -- Special Problems -- Unsettled Questions in the Political Economy of the Arts -- The Economics of Museums and Galleries -- Are Museums Betraying the Public's Trust? -- On the Performing Arts: The Anatomy of their Economic Problems1 -- The Demand for Broadway Theater Tickets1 -- Risk, Uncertainty and the Performing Artist1 -- The Supply of the Performing Arts

O autorze

Mark Blaug is Professor and Head of the Research Unit in the Economics of Education at the University of London and also teaches at the London School of Economics. He has taught at various American universities and is the author of four books.