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UNINA9910454724803321 |
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Autore |
Cowen Tyler |
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Titolo |
Good & plenty [[electronic resource] ] : the creative successes of American arts funding / / Tyler Cowen |
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Princeton, N.J., : Princeton University Press, c2006 |
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ISBN |
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1-282-08736-3 |
9786612087363 |
1-4008-2700-0 |
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Edizione |
[Course Book] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (206 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Art and state - United States |
Federal aid to the arts - United States |
Aesthetics - Economic aspects |
Culture - Economic aspects |
Electronic books. |
United States Cultural policy |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 169-188) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Warring perspectives -- Indirect subsidies: the genius of the American system -- Direct subsidies: are they too conservative? -- Copyright and the future of decentralized incentives -- Toward a beautiful and liberal future. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Americans agree about government arts funding in the way the women in the old joke agree about the food at the wedding: it's terrible--and such small portions! Americans typically either want to abolish the National Endowment for the Arts, or they believe that public arts funding should be dramatically increased because the arts cannot survive in the free market. It would take a lover of the arts who is also a libertarian economist to bridge such a gap. Enter Tyler Cowen. In this book he argues why the U.S. way of funding the arts, while largely indirect, results not in the terrible and the small but in Good and Plenty--and how it could result in even more and better. Few would deny that America produces and consumes art of a quantity and quality comparable to that of any country. But is this despite or because of |
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