The Economics of the Arts (Paperback)

Preface: Recent Developments in the Economics of the Performing Arts -- Introduction: What is the Economics of the Arts About? -- The Rationale for Public Subsidies to the Arts -- Reasons for Subsidizing American Theater -- Arguments for Public Support of the Performing Arts -- What's Wrong with the Arts Is What's Wrong with Society1 -- Welfare Economics and Public Subsidies to the Arts1 -- Evaluating Public Expenditure on the Arts -- Cultural Accounting1 -- Does the Arts Council Know What It Is Doing? -- The Arts Council and Its Critics with A Reply -- Rationalising Social Expenditure?The Arts -- A Survey of American and British Audiences for the Performing Arts -- Special Problems -- Unsettled Questions in the Political Economy of the Arts -- The Economics of Museums and Galleries -- Are Museums Betraying the Public's Trust? -- On the Performing Arts: The Anatomy of their Economic Problems1 -- The Demand for Broadway Theater Tickets1 -- Risk, Uncertainty and the Performing Artist1 -- The Supply of the Performing Arts