Good and Plenty : The Creative Successes of American Arts Funding /

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 dram...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cowen, Tyler
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2006.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Aesthetics > Economic aspects.
Cultuurbeleid.
Overheidssteun.
Beeldende kunsten.
Kunst
Öffentliche Förderung
Federal aid to the arts
Culture > Economic aspects
Cultural policy
Art and state
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Nonprofit Organizations & Charities.
ART > Performance.
ART > Reference.
Art > Politique gouvernementale > États-Unis.
Culture > Economic aspects.
Federal aid to the arts > United States.
Art and state > United States.
USA
United States
United States > Cultural policy.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary: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 s.
Physical Description:1 online resource (208 pages).
ISBN:9781400827008

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