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Why has cultural economics ignored copyright? 总被引：1，自引：1，他引：0
Ruth Towse 《Journal of Cultural Economics》2008,32(4):243-259
My stance is that copyright policy should be viewed as part of cultural policy; cultural economists have had a great deal
to say about subsidy and cultural policy but very little about copyright, though cultural economics is well placed to analyse
copyright as an incentive to creativity in the creative industries because of its understanding of cultural policy and of
artists’ labour markets. The article contrasts subsidy and copyright as policy tools and briefly discusses two current policy
problems in relation to copyright—regulating copyright collection societies and the so-called ‘copyright levy’—arguing that
these are the sort of issues cultural economists could (and should) be dealing with.
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| Ruth TowseEmail: |
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In this article we present an empirical analysis of the ‘patterns of cultural choice’ in the musical domain in Italy. The
main goal of the article is to verify whether musical tastes in Italy are diversified, with the presence of a group of ‘cultural
omnivores’. Our study is based on the theoretical model of the demand for cultural goods proposed by Lévy-Garboua and Montmarquette
(1996). In the empirical analysis we simultaneously evaluate the probability of choosing different musical genres. Through the
specification of the set of alternatives into three groupings of musical genres —“only classical music”, “only popular music”
and “all music”—we were able to detect the relative impact of several socio-economic characteristics on the probability of
having “univorous” or “omnivorous” musical likings. In addition, our approach allows us to verify the existence of different
patterns of music consumption by testing the significance of differences among the estimated coefficients of the probability
functions related to the three groupings of musical genres. We find that age, gender and education are important predictors
of an omnivorous taste.
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| Carlofilippo FrateschiEmail: |
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This essay describes China’s participation in international science organizations during the past two decades. It argues that,
whilst progress has been made, serious problems remain. It concludes that increased attention to communication and exchange,
and the creation of a favourable international image in science and technology are important priorities for China.
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| Ang XuEmail: |
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Governments often see it as their responsibility to support cultural life and at times spend a significant amount of resources
in the pursuit of this goal. The present article analyses whether and how municipalities influence each other in this decision
to spend resources on the arts (using data on local government cultural spending in 304 Flemish municipalities in 2002). Following
‘central place theory’, the focal point of the analysis is the idea that––especially for cultural expenditures––large municipalities
(and, specifically, ‘central places’) may affect their neighbours’ behaviour differently than small municipalities. The empirical
analysis supports this idea. Indeed, we show that Flemish municipalities’ cultural spending is generally positively affected
by that in neighbouring municipalities. This pattern is, however, significantly more complex for municipalities neighbouring
the 13 largest Flemish cities.
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| Benny Geys (Corresponding author)Email: |
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Despite the lack of a clear definition of the concept, “cultural diversity” has remained a core issue for more than a decade
(WTO, UNESCO, etc.). The aim of this paper is to begin to fill this gap. We argue that cultural diversity is a multi-dimensional
concept and that accurate metrics must rely on three criteria: variety, balance and disparity. We also stress that supplied
and consumed diversity have to be distinguished. We apply this set of multiple measures of diversity to publishing data for
France over the period 1990–2003. Our main result is that the situation of the publishing industry in terms of cultural diversity
is highly dependent on the dimension considered. Hence, diversity increases when variety is the sole consideration, whereas
taking balance or disparity into account leads to the opposite conclusion. This issue raises a series of questions about the
use of diversity measures in a policy debate concerned with furthering cultural diversity.
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| Stéphanie PeltierEmail: |
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Sao-Wen Cheng 《Journal of Cultural Economics》2006,30(4):263-286
The cultural atmosphere in a society is accumulated over time through the consumption of cultural services and is diminished through depreciation. Using cultural capital (e.g., cultural heritage, paintings, music scores), cultural services are provided by the cultural-services industry (e.g., museums, opera houses); cultural capital is enlarged by new cultural goods created by individuals. Individuals’ utilities are positively affected by the cultural services they consume, by the cultural goods they create and by the cultural atmosphere and the cultural capital accumulated in society. In a laissez-faire economy, individuals tend to ignore the positive external effects of their cultural-services consumption and creation of cultural goods on other individuals via accumulating cultural atmosphere and cultural capital. Consequently, suboptimally little cultural atmosphere and cultural capital will be accumulated. The efficient intertemporal allocation can be restored by introducing an appropriate subsidy that not only stimulates consumers’ demand for cultural services and the creation of new cultural goods but also enhances the accumulation of cultural atmosphere and cultural capital.
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| Sao-Wen ChengEmail: Phone: +49-271-7404534 |
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Assessing cultural values: developing an attitudinal scale 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
Effective measurement of cultural value is often elusive because of its multidimensional nature. It is also influenced by
sociodemographic characteristics (manifest variables) and attitudinal characteristics (latent variables) of populations. While
the former is easily available to researchers, the latter has not been fully studied. This paper suggests the use of a cultural
worldview scale that was developed to measure cultural attitudes of people, using factor and cluster analysis. Four factors
comprise the scale: cultural linkages, recognition of cultural values, cultural loss and preservation of traditions and customs.
Some advantages of using this scale are demonstrated, and relationships with sociodemographic variables are investigated.
Managerial and policy implications are discussed.
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| Jeff BennettEmail: |
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Funding agencies in Canada are attempting to break down the organizational boundaries between disciplines to promote interdisciplinary
research and foster the integration of the social sciences into the health research field. This paper explores the extent
to which biomedical and clinician scientists’ perceptions of social science research operate as a cultural boundary to the
inclusion of social scientists into this field. Results indicated that cultural boundaries may impede social scientists’ entry
into the health research field through three modalities: (1) biomedical and clinician scientists’ unfavourable and ambivalent
posture towards social science research; (2) their opposition to a resource increase for the social sciences; and (3) clinician
scientists procedural assessment criteria for social science. The paper also discusses the merits and limitations of Tom Gieryn’s
concept of boundary-work for studying social dynamics within the field of science.
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| Brian D. HodgesEmail: |
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Peder Anker 《Minerva》2007,45(4):417-434
Buckminster Fuller’s experiences in the Navy became a model for his ecological design projects and suggestions for the global
management of ‘Spaceship Earth’. Inspired by technocratic ideas of the 1930s, Fuller envisaged, in the 1970s, an elitist world
without politics, in which designers were at the helm, steering the planet out of its environmental crises.
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| Peder AnkerEmail: |
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Edgeir Benum 《Minerva》2007,45(4):365-387
This essay explores how the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and Norway became linked into a
science policy discourse that radiated throughout the developed world. Despite political differences, this discourse changed
forever the expectations by which Norway’s universities and its fundamental research institutions were to operate.
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| Edgeir BenumEmail: |
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For academic administrators, the management of research remains a matter more of hope than expectation. It has proved particularly
difficult to measure quality. Managers typically view research as an ‹asset’. This essay argues that it is more useful to
view research and its management as ‹process’, and explores the implications of doing so for managers and researchers alike.
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| Paul H. J. HendriksEmail: |
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Carlos A. Ulibarri 《Journal of Cultural Economics》2009,33(2):135-149
This paper applies a perpetual option-pricing model in examining historical returns on paintings. A key development of the
paper is formalizing a structural relationship between rational investment decisions and historical returns to art ownership.
In this regard the options’ framework yields choice-theoretic implications on the relationship among risk, convenience yields
from art ownership, and investor ‘hurdle prices’—prices triggering the purchase and sale of artworks at auction. The methodology
offers testable implications concerning the adjustment dynamics in the relationship between historical art returns and risk-free
yields. The implications are examined in a case study of paintings of major art schools using error correction methodology.
We find evidence of a long-run equilibrium relationship between painting types and risk-free bond yields, and some indication
of buyers and sellers preferring exchange environments not prone to “speculative resales.”
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| Carlos A. UlibarriEmail: |
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In this article we study the determinants of cultural participation in Israel with an emphasis on the Weberian distinction
between class and status. The class measure is based on occupational groupings, and status is operationalized as a rank of
occupations based on social distance. We expect that class will be less important than status in shaping cultural participation
patterns. In addition, due to the importance of ethnicity and religiosity in Israeli society, we expect that these factors
will be significant in shaping cultural participation. Data are based on two telephone surveys conducted in 2006 and 2007
of a random sample of the Jewish population in Israel. We find that, contrary to our expectation, class is more influential
than status. We also find that ethnicity and religiosity are important factors that shape cultural participation patterns.
We discuss possible explanations to the finding regarding class and status, with special attention to the role cultural policy
plays in mediating the economic effect on consumer behavior. We also call for more attention to ethnicity and religiosity
in studies of cultural stratification.
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| Tally Katz-GerroEmail: |
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Richard Swedberg 《Journal of Cultural Economics》2006,30(4):243-261
In this paper on the creative industries and cultural entrepreneurship I take my point of departure in Richard Caves’ Creative Industries [Caves, R. (2000). Creative industries: Contacts between art and commerce. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.]. While Caves draws heavily on economic analysis and contemporary sociology in his excellent analysis of these two topics, he does not use the sociological classics at all. The main purpose of the paper is an attempt to remedy this, by drawing attention to the possible contribution that the works of Max Weber, Emile Durkheim, and Georg Simmel can make to our understanding of the creative industries and cultural entrepreneurship. Since this paper was prepared as a keynote address for the 2006 conference of the Association for Cultural Economics International in Vienna, I also discuss Schumpeter’s ideas on art and entrepreneurship, ideas which grew out of Viennese culture.
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| Richard SwedbergEmail: |
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Roy Macleod 《Minerva》2008,46(1):53-76
In 1925, A.J. Balfour, first Earl Balfour and author of the famous ‘Balfour Declaration’, attended the inauguration of the
Hebrew University in Jerusalem. His education and experience of foreign policy equipped him to take a prominent role. However,
the conditions of strife-torn Palestine weighed heavily upon him, and raised wider interests of imperial concern. This essay
recounts the circumstances leading to his visit, and suggests that, whatever the region’s political destiny, Balfour’s vision
of science-based economic development would play an essential role in crafting its future.
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| Roy MacleodEmail: |
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Using data on the ‘career’ paths of one thousand ‘leading scientists’ from 1450 to 1900, what is conventionally called the
‘rise of modern science’ is mapped as a changing geography of scientific practice in urban networks. Four distinctive networks
of scientific practice are identified. A primate network centred on Padua and central and northern Italy in the sixteenth
century expands across the Alps to become a polycentric network in the seventeenth century, which in turn dissipates into
a weak polycentric network in the eighteenth century. The nineteenth century marks a huge change of scale as a primate network
centred on Berlin and dominated by German-speaking universities. These geographies are interpreted as core-producing processes
in Wallerstein’s modern world-system; the rise of modern scientific practice is central to the development of structures of
knowledge that relate to, but do not mirror, material changes in the system.
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| David M. EvansEmail: |
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Geographic clustering of economic activity: The case of prominent western visual artists 总被引：1，自引：1，他引：0
This article compiles original data relating to artists’ place of birth and work migration patterns using various art history
dictionaries. The broad historic pattern, from the 13th to the 20th century, of the birth locations of prominent artists is examined, followed
by a detailed study of the work migration patterns of prominent artists in two important situations, namely Renaissance Italy
and France in part of the 19th century. The evidence indicates a marked clustering of activity of prominent artists, both
arising from birth location and migration patterns. Some possible explanations for the observed patterns are briefly outlined.
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| John O’HaganEmail: |
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This article investigates the effect of a Tony nomination or win on the demand facing a Broadway production using a panel
of weekly revenues for Broadway productions from 1996 to 2007. Our results indicate that the effect of a nomination or win
is positive in the week of the announcement and gradually increases in successive weeks, presumably due to publicity and word-of-mouth.
Winners experience an increase in demand as late as 1 year later when awards are publicized for the following season. Moreover,
nominees that do not win the award are penalized heavily in the weeks following the Award announcements. We find that winning
a Tony Award increases a production’s revenues by 12% in the week immediately following the Awards.
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| Lesley ChiouEmail: |
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This article presents an empirical study of paintings that have failed to meet their reserve price at auction. In the art
trade, it is often claimed that when an advertised item goes unsold at auction, it will sell for less in the future. We have
constructed a new dataset specifically for the purpose of testing this proposition. To preview our results, we find that paintings
which come to auction and failed return significantly less when they are eventually sold than those paintings that have not
been advertised at auction between sales. These lower returns may occur because of common value effects, idiosyncratic downward
trends in tastes, or changes in the seller’s reserve price.
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| Kathryn GraddyEmail: |