The economics of creativity : art and achievement under uncertainty /

Main Description:Creative work has been celebrated as the highest form of achievement since at least Aristotle. But our understanding of the dynamics and market for creative work--artistic work in particular--often relies on unexamined clichés about individual genius, industrial engineering of tale...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Menger, Pierre-Michel (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Francés
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2014.
Subjects:
Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Artists > France > Social conditions.
Art and society > France.
Art et société > France.
ART > Performance.
ART > Reference.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Labor.
Art and society
Artists > Social conditions
Soziale Situation
Kunst
Künstler
Kreativität
Gesellschaft
France
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Chapter one. Time, Causes, and Reasons in Action
  • Chapter two. Is Working to Achieve Self-Fulfillment Rational?
  • Chapter three. Rationality and Uncertainty in the Artist's Life
  • Chapter four. Talent and Reputation: Social Science Explanations for Varying Degrees of Success
  • Chapter five. How Can Artistic Greatness Be Analyzed?: Beethoven and His Genius
  • Chapter six. Profiles of the Unfinished: Rodin's Work and the Varieties of Incompleteness
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index.

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