Detailed surveys examine economic aspects of art and culture, from improved methodologies to new commercial applications.
1. Introduction and overview
Victor A. Ginsburgh and David Throsby
PART I. Value and evaluation in art and culture
2. Creative genius in literature, music and the visual
arts
Dean Keith Simonton
3. Contemporary experimental aesthetics: Procedures and
findings
Paul J. Locher
4. The economic and cultural value of paintings: Some empirical
evidence
David Throsby and Anita Zednik
5. Values of music
Jerrold Levinson
6. The economics of cultural awards
James F. English
7. The use of stated preference methods to value cultural
heritage
Ken G. Willis
PART II. Demand, consumption and investment
8. Bestsellers and blockbusters: Movies, music and
books
W.D. Walls
9. New technologies and cultural consumption
Jason Potts
10. Investment in visual art: Evidence from international
transactions
Benjamin R. Mandel
PART III. Innovation and technological change
11. Cultural innovation by cultural
organizations
Xavier Castañer
12. Digitization, copyright, and the flow of new music
products
Joel Waldfogel
13. The pricing of art and the art of pricing: Pricing styles in
the concert industry
Pascal Courty and Mario Pagliero
14. Media ownership: Diversity versus efficiency in a changing
technological environment
Gillian Doyle
PART IV. Trade, development, and cultural diversity
15. Cultural products in the international trading
system
P. Lelio Iapadre
16. Cultural diversity, copyright and international
trade
Fiona Macmillan
17. Trade and cultural diversity
Alberto Bisin and Thierry Verdier
18. Cultural diversity, conflict, and economic
development
José G. Montalvo and Marta Reynal-Querol
19. Culture, linguistic diversity, and economics
Victor Ginsburgh and Shlomo Weber
PART V. Broader cultural issues
20. National culture as value orientations: Consequences of value
differences and cultural distance
Shalom H. Schwartz
21. Religion, culture, and development
Gani Aldashev and Jean-Philippe Platteau
22. Strategic interactions between modern law and
custom
Jean-Philippe Platteau and Zaki Wahhaj
"This handbook is situated at the very cutting edge of modern
economics: the place where rational thought and the idea of culture
meet, mix and invite to new exciting theories. Add to this a deep
concern with culture in the form of art, and you have a book that
becomes extra interesting and important – to general readers,
social scientists and good libraries." --Richard Swedberg, Cornell
University
"This book is an actual encyclopedia of creativity in a disguise of
collected papers. It is enjoyable like a product of creative art,
valuable as a stimulus of mind and useful mentor in the process of
our problem solving. It is worth reading." --Istvan Magyari-Beck,
Corvinus University of Budapest and New York State University
College at Buffalo, New York
"Victor Ginsburgh and David Throsby have prepared an edited volume
that will quickly become the standard resource in the field of
cultural economics. This carefully constructed work provides
both the breadth of subjects and detailed analysis necessary for
teachers, researchers, practitioners, and students, with topics
ranging from creative genius to the pricing of rock concerts."
--Kathryn Graddy, Brandeis University
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