Arts, Sciences, and Economics A Historical Safari
This book deals with the economic aspects of changing attitudes in arts and sciences. The effects of the public good character of culture, along with the very long production period and lifetime for its products, are emphasized, since both contribute to t
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Arts, Sciences, and Economics A Historical Safari Second Edition
Arts, Sciences, and Economics
TRonu Puu
Arts, Sciences, and Economics A Historical Safari Second Edition
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TRonu Puu CERUM UmeVa University UmeVa Sweden
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Preface
This book first appeared in 2006. As an economist by profession, who published since 1962, with around 10,000 printed pages on my conscience, I have been through quite a number of different areas, but the economics of culture never belonged to any of my fields of expertise, which are theoretical rather than empirical, and shaped through mathematical models rather than by verbal reasoning. This, of course, is a wrong format for any serious study of the economics of culture.
Art History However, besides my pro
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