Ethics and Cultural Policy in a Global Economy

ISBN-13: 9781349430338 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 233 str.

Sarah Owen Vandersluis

Opis

Sarah Owen Vandersluis critically examines approaches to cultural policy within the global economy. This study taps into the growing debate on ethical theory and International Political Economy. It challenges the normative positions of nationalists and welfare economists, before developing an alternative communitarian ethics for cultural policy in a global economy. The study concludes with an examination of the practical implications of this ethics in several case studies.

Spis treści

Introduction Contending Views of Culture and the Good Life Welfare Economics and the Moral Relevance of Culture The Ethics of Culture and Community Towards an Ethics for Cultural Policy Cultural Industries and Cross-Border Trade: Canadian Periodicals Examined Prospects for Post-National Cultural Policy: The Case of the European Union Conclusions

O autorze

SARAH OWEN-VANDERSLUIS completed her PhD in International Relations at the London School of Economics and currently works in finance at ford Motor Company. She is the editor of The State and Identity Construction in International Relations and co-editor, with Paris Yeros, of Poverty in World Politics: Whose Global Era?