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Arts & Economics

Analysis & Cultural Policy

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  • © 2003

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Authors:
  1. Bruno S. Frey

    1. Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung (IEW), University of Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland

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  • One of the most fascinating applications of economics

  • Written by a leading expert in application of economics in non-economic fields

  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Combining Art and Economics

    1. Economics of Art: A Personal Survey

      • Bruno S. Frey
      Pages 1-18

    2. Art: The Economic Point of View

      • Bruno S. Frey
      Pages 19-34

  3. Museums and Performing Arts

    1. For Art’s Sake — Open Up the Vaults

      • Bruno S. Frey
      Pages 35-47

    2. Superstar Museums: An Economic Analysis

      • Bruno S. Frey
      Pages 49-65

    3. Special Exhibitions and Festivals: Culture’s Booming Path to Glory

      • Isabelle Vautravers-Busenhart
      Pages 67-93

    4. Private Faces in Public Places: A Case Study of the New Beyeler Art Museum

      • Stephan Meier
      Pages 95-104

  4. Supporting the Arts

    1. How Can the Arts Be Publicly Promoted?

      • Werner W. Pommerehne
      Pages 105-126

    2. Public Support for the Arts in a Direct Democracy

      • Werner W. Pommerehne
      Pages 127-140

    3. Creativity, Government and the Arts

      • Bruno S. Frey
      Pages 141-155

  5. Art Investment and Evaluation

    1. Art Investment Returns

      • Reiner Eichenberger
      Pages 157-179

    2. Evaluating Cultural Property

      • Bruno S. Frey
      Pages 181-196

    3. Art Fakes — What Fakes?

      • Bruno S. Frey
      Pages 197-210

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 211-246
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About this book

To put the ARTS & ECONOMICS next to each other, as in the title to this book, may be shocking to some readers. Must not creative art be free of economic constraints, must it not lead a life of its own? And is economics not the realm of mean commercial dealings? This book argues that it is not so: the ARTS & ECONOMICS go well together, indeed need each other. Without a sound economic base, art cannot exist, and without creativity the economy cannot flourish. There is a second way in which the Arts and Economics go together, namely in the sense of applying economic thinking to the arts. Over the last decades, this scholarly endeavor has been established under the name of "The Economics of Art" or "Cultural Economics". But this may also sound revolting to some readers as it suggests an imperialistic extension of a lowly benefit-cost calculus to the world of art. This fear is unwarranted. On the contrary, cultural economists stress the social value of art and defend it against a crude business view of art. Rather than dismissing art without direct commercial profit, art economists seek ways and means of supporting it. This book is not a textbook summarizing the achievements attained by the economics of art. Such books already exist, among them the author's own, Muses and Markets, Explorations in the Economics of Art, written jointly with Werner Pommerehne. VI Preface ARTS & ECONOMICS charters little known territories.

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  • Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung (IEW), University of Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland

    Bruno S. Frey

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