In Praise of Commercial Culture / / Tyler Cowen.
Does a market economy encourage or discourage music, literature, and the visual arts? Do economic forces of supply and demand help or harm the pursuit of creativity? This book seeks to redress the current intellectual and popular balance and to encourage a more favorable attitude toward the commerci...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2009] ©2000 |
| Year of Publication: | 2009 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (288 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Acknowledgments
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1 The Arts in a Market Economy
- 2 The Market for the Written Word
- 3 The Wealthy City as a Center for Western Art
- 4 From Bach to the Beatles: The Developing Market for Music
- 5 Why Cultural Pessimism?
- Notes
- Index