- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Introduction to the Series
- Copyright
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1. Introduction and Overview
- PART I: Value and evaluation in art and culture
- Chapter 2. Creative Genius in Literature, Music, and the Visual Arts
- Chapter 3. Contemporary Experimental Aesthetics: Procedures and Findings
- Chapter 4. The Economic and Cultural Value of Paintings: Some Empirical Evidence
- Chapter 5. Values of Music
- Abstract
- 5.1 Introduction
- 5.2 Preliminary Distinctions
- 5.3 Music’s Value for Listener, Performer, And Composer
- 5.4 Manners of Musical Value
- 5.5 The Centrality of Music in Human Life
- 5.6 The Artistic Value of Music
- 5.7 Music’s Extra-Artistic Value
- 5.8 Music’s Aesthetic Value
- 5.9 Music’s Symbolic Value
- 5.10 Music’s Self-Affirmation Value
- 5.11 Music’s Social Value
- 5.12 Music’s Idiosyncratic Value
- 5.13 Music’s Mood-Enhancement Value
- 5.14 Music’s Accompaniment Value
- Appendix
- References
- Chapter 6. The Economics of Cultural Awards
- Chapter 7. The Use of Stated Preference Methods to Value Cultural Heritage
- PART II: Demand, consumption and investment
- Chapter 8. Bestsellers and Blockbusters: Movies, Music, and Books
- Chapter 9. New Technologies and Cultural Consumption
- Chapter 10. Investment in Visual Art: Evidence from International Transactions
- Abstract
- 10.1 Introduction
- 10.2 Testable Implications of International Art Sales
- 10.3 Real Exports of Paintings, Prints, and Sculptures
- 10.4 The Correlation Between Exports of Artworks, Consumer Goods, and Capital Goods
- 10.5 Art Trade and Permanent Income
- 10.6 Concluding Remarks
- Acknowledgments
- Appendix
- References
- PART III: Innovation and technological change
- Chapter 11. Cultural Innovation by Cultural Organizations
- Chapter 12. Digitization, Copyright, and the Flow of New Music Products
- Chapter 13. The Pricing of Art and the Art of Pricing: Pricing Styles in the Concert Industry
- Abstract
- 13.1 Introduction
- 13.2 The Live Event Industry: Facts, Literature Review, and Open Questions
- 13.3 Data and Summary Statistics
- 13.4 Price Discrimination: Measurement Issues
- 13.5 Price Discrimination at the Concert Level
- 13.6 Price Discrimination at the Artist Level
- 13.7 Identifying Artists’ Pricing Styles
- 13.8 Candidate Explanation for the Use of Price Discrimination
- 13.9 Exploitation of Market Power
- 13.10 Discussion
- 13.11 Overview and Future Research
- Acknowledgments
- References
- Chapter 14. Media Ownership: Diversity Versus Efficiency in a Changing Technological Environment
- PART IV: Trade, development, and cultural diversity
- Chapter 15. Cultural Products in the International Trading System
- Abstract
- 15.1 Introduction
- 15.2 The Debate on Trade and Culture
- 15.3 International Trade in Cultural Goods and Services: a Survey of Theoretical Models and Empirical Studies
- 15.4 Should the Cultural Sector be Protected From International Integration? Normative Issues at the National Level
- 15.5 The Global Governance of Cultural Policies: Normative Issues at the International Level
- 15.6 Conclusions and Suggestions for Future Research
- Acknowledgments
- References
- Chapter 16. Cultural Diversity, Copyright, and International Trade
- Chapter 17. Trade and Cultural Diversity
- Abstract
- 17.1 Introduction
- 17.2 Theoretical Perspectives on International Trade and Cultural Diversity
- 17.3 Dynamic Cultural Transmission Models
- 17.4 Cultural Transmission and Competitive Economic Exchange
- 17.5 Factor Endowments, Trade, and Cultural Convergence
- 17.6 Group Consumption Externalities and Cultural Divergence
- 17.7 Increasing Returns, Market size effects, and Cultural Dynamics
- 17.8 Conclusions
- References
- Chapter 18. Cultural Diversity, Conflict, and Economic Development
- Chapter 19. Culture, Linguistic Diversity, and Economics
- Chapter 15. Cultural Products in the International Trading System
- PART V: Broader cultural issues
- Chapter 20. National Culture as Value Orientations: Consequences of Value Differences and Cultural Distance
- Abstract
- 20.1 Cultural Value Orientations to Characterize Societies
- 20.2 Mapping Cultural Differences Around the World
- 20.3 Comparison with the Hofstede and Inglehart Dimensions
- 20.4 Cultural Value Orientations and Economically Significant Variables
- 20.5 Conclusions
- Acknowledgments
- Appendix
- References
- Chapter 21. Religion, Culture, and Development
- Abstract
- 21.1 Introduction
- 21.2 The Effect of Religion on Individual Behavior
- 21.3 The Role of Religion as a Response to Market or State Imperfections
- 21.4 Market Structure Models: The Effect of Competition on Religion
- 21.5 The State as a Strategic Actor: A Political Economics Approach
- 21.6 Conclusion
- References
- Chapter 22. Strategic Interactions Between Modern Law and Custom
- Chapter 20. National Culture as Value Orientations: Consequences of Value Differences and Cultural Distance
- Index
Acknowledgments
We wish to acknowledge the financial support provided by the Faculty of Business and Economics, Macquarie University through its Visiting International Scholar Scheme, which enabled the two editors to work together in Sydney on the finalization of this volume. We also express our gratitude to Laura Billington in the Department of Economics at Macquarie University, whose superb editorial work and continuing support made an enormous contribution to the successful completion of this project.
Victor A. Ginsburgh
David Throsby
May 2013
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