Welfare Economics and Public Policy: A Re-examination
Classical liberal political economists such as Rowley and Peacock (Welfare economics: a liberal restatement, York studies in economics. Martin Robertson, London, 1975) expressed serious reservations about the way Welfare Economics came to be used in the f
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The Artful Economist A New Look at Cultural Economics
The Artful Economist
Ilde Rizzo • Ruth Towse Editors
The Artful Economist A New Look at Cultural Economics
Editors Ilde Rizzo Department of Economics and Business University of Catania Catania, Italy
Ruth Towse Bournemouth University Bournemouth, Dorset, UK CREATe University of Glasgow Glasgow, UK
ISBN 978-3-319-40635-0 ISBN 978-3-319-40637-4 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-40637-4
(eBook)
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In memory of Professor Sir Alan Turner Peacock 1922–2014
Foreword
Alan Peacock, a Lucid, Rigorous, and Pragmatic Academic The first time I met Alan Peacock was in Catania, Sicily, in a seminar on heritage economics. I was amazed by the very high standards he set for himself and for the other economists as well (a kind of “desire for excellence”). The participants shared a strong concern for the “future of the past” and a sincere willingness to imagine sustainable economic models for the conservation of heritage. Alan Peacock was able to reconcile a normative and a positive approach and to apply his expertise and knowledge of the general question of public policies for culture to the concrete problems of the conservation of heritage. With his impressive understanding of culture and the particular importance of music in his life, Peacock was an anti-conventional thinker. His writing was precise and elegant (a rare quality among economists). Peacock did not hesitate to be ironic or self-deprecating. He had a great sense of
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