Cultural Economics

Section I: Policy and Policy Evaluation.- 1. Economics, Cultural Values and Cultural Policies.- 2. Public Choice and Public Funding of the Arts.- 3. Problems of Planning Cultural Programs under Endogenous Tastes.- 4 The Rationale for Public Funding of a National Museum.- 5. Assessing and Financing Cultural Investments.- 6. The Wexford Opera Festival: A Case for Public Funding?.- 7. Trends in Art Policy: The Dutch Case.- Section II: Pricing Issues.- 8. Some Unanswered Questions in the Economics of Art.- 9. Auction of Works of Art.- 10. Factors Affecting Price on the Contemporary Art Market.- 11. The Classification of Prices: An International Comparative Inquiry into the Admission Prices for Cultural Events.- Section III: Audiences for the Arts.- 12. Art Productivity in the Information Age.- 13. Risk, Risk Aversion and the Demand for Performing Arts.- 14. Museum Visitor Surveys: An Overview, 1930-1990.- Section IV: Trade in Cultural Goods.- 15. Considerations in Adapting Industrial Organization Theory to the International Trade in Cultural Goods.- 16. The Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement: Provisions Directly and Indirectly Affecting Trade in Cultural Product.- Section V: Artists' Earnings.- 17. Why and How to Define an Artist: Types of Definitions and Their Implications for Empirical Research Results.- 18. Toward a Unified Theory of the Determinants of the Earnings of Artists.- 19. Artists as Workers.- 20. The Earnings of Singers: An Economic Analysis.- Section VI: Country Studies.- 21. On the Economics of the Performing Arts in the USSR and the USA: A Preliminary Comparison of the Data.- 22. Cultural Policy in an Era of Budgetary Stringency and Fiscal Decentralization: The U.S. Experience.- 23. A Cultural Good Called Venice.- 24. Thaliametrics - A Case Study of Copenhagen Theatre Market.- 25. Art Costs and Subsidies: The Case of Norwegian Performing Arts.- 26. Socio-Economic Characteristics of Audiences for Western Classical Music in Japan: A Statistical Analysis.-

Ruth Towse is Professor of Economics of Creative Industries at Bournemouth University and Professor Emerita at Erasmus Univeristy, Rotterdam. Professor Towse is one of the world s leading cultural economists and has taught in universities in the UK, the Netherlands, Italy and Thailand. She was Joint Editor of the Journal of Cultural Economics from 1993-2002 and President of the Association for Cultural Economics International from 2006-2008. She is a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.