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Good and Plenty: The Creative Successes of American Arts Funding
Tyler Cowen
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Description for Good and Plenty: The Creative Successes of American Arts Funding
Paperback. 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. This book argues why the US way of funding the arts results not in the terrible and the small but in Good and Plenty - and how it could result in even more and better. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; ABQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 227 x 146 x 15. Weight in Grams: 304.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
Number of Pages
216
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691146263
SKU
V9780691146263
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About Tyler Cowen
Tyler Cowen is professor of economics at George Mason University. His books include "Creative Destruction" (Princeton) and "Create Your Own Economy". He frequently writes for the "New York Times", Slate, and the economics blog Marginal Revolution.
Reviews for Good and Plenty: The Creative Successes of American Arts Funding
"A rare and much needed objective look at the topic of government funding for the arts. Avoiding the hyperbole often heard on both sides of the argument, Cowen offers a balanced overview of publicly-funded art. A must for the biased advocate."
Art Times "Cowen makes the point loudly and clearly: indirect subsidy favors the decentralization of artistic creativity, particularly as it ... Read more
Art Times "Cowen makes the point loudly and clearly: indirect subsidy favors the decentralization of artistic creativity, particularly as it ... Read more