5. Toward a Beautiful and Liberal Future

5. Toward a Beautiful and Liberal Future
Note:consigli di policyla bellezza va scoperta o va conservata?proviamo a farci la stessa domanda pensando alla verità scientifica.se va scoperta meglio aprire molte fonti e decentralizzare il processoil sussidio cpn agevolazione fiscale è un buon compromrsdo tra purismo critico e purismo economicole decisioni culturali + importanti: internet copyright.il sussidio funziona quando il panorama è opaco e il divario tra èlites e massa è chiaro. oggi qs condizioni nn ci sono concentrare i sussidi dirrtti: si evita la polverizzazione e si responsabilizza l'entesussidiare anche i for profit se meritevolisussidi e innovazoone? affidati alla discrezionalità di un singolo responsabilela trasparenza nn giova ai funzoonari delle belle arti devono agire in modo indipendente librri da pressioni in uns privacy garantita... la trasparenza fa temere i passi falsi e i passi falsi sono necessari nel processo di scoperta

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1. The best arts policy stimulates creative discovery
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This implies a strong economy, numerous and diverse sources of decentralized funding
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U.S. policy should not be designed to target any narrow notion of art.
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policy successes are accidents.
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The American system of indirect funding
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Americans should reject the image of their country or their government as lacking in concern for the arts.
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copyright, the Internet, and telecommunications.
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a system of compulsory licensing fees, for online music, can improve market competition.
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Direct subsidies have worked best when accountability is absent, when the marketplace is failing to spot many of the best artists,
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we could restore the full ability of the NEA to make grants to individual artists. Currently NEA funds often go to large and well-established art institutions, where they have less of a chance of making a difference.
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The NEA should be trying to fund projects that otherwise would perish or never come about in the first place. The NEA should be more like a venture capitalist.
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NEA should be free to assist for-profit artistic enterprises.
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Finally, we could relax peer review for many direct subsidies.
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If these changes should prove politically impossible, it would be best to “play it safe”
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This would suggest a concentration of effort on preserving and showcasing the artistic heritage of mankind.
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The value of “accountability” is often counterproductive when applied to direct subsidies for art.
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For instance, tenured college professors are not (usually) accountable to university administrators for the content of their ideas.
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an ethic of academic freedom will best
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Supreme Court justices are not accountable for the content of their decisions,
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direct subsidies stand the greatest chance of making a positive difference when they are insulated from many pressures of accountability.
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there are many failures for every success. Too much direct accountability causes the funder to be excessively afraid of failure.
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greater transparency of government policy is not in every way desirable. It may be better not to have too much explicit debate over arts policy, especially if that debate takes place in a centralized forum.
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Which Arguments for Subsidies Remain on the Table?
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decentralization and prestige
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The decentralization argument suggested that the government encourage a diversity of funding sources for art.
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avoiding excess politicization.
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the decentralization argument for indirect subsidies avoids or at least deflects many of the critiques of government involvement in the arts.
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indirect subsidies bring only a minimum of outside government interference.
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The libertarian critique claims that individuals should not be forced to pay for arts they do not approve of.
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government policies that promote prosperity also boost the arts,
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if desired, the libertarian view could be superimposed on the policy recommendations of this book,
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Finally, the decentralization argument has the greatest chance of standing up to the “What about the Haitians?” critique.
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Why should we prefer more opera performances to this lifesaving alternative?
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At the margin we still have the choice of redirecting funds away from nonprofits and toward poor Haitians. The overall comparison, however, has changed. The comparison is no longer “opera performance versus food for Haitians.”
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We see also that wealthy, decentralized societies are in the best position to digest and assist immigrants. Immigration is the most effective antipoverty program. The migrants not only enjoy higher standards of living; they send billions of dollars back home in the form of remittances. The scientific discoveries of wealthy, decentralized societies also redound to the benefit of poorer regions of the world.
Note:ARGOMENTO PIÙ GENERALE X CONIUGARE DECENTRALIZZAZIONE E POVERTÁ

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What Aesthetic Claims Underlie the Decentralization Argument, or What Is Art?
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The decentralization argument sidesteps many difficult and perhaps unresolvable questions about aesthetics.
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the decentralization argument does not require an explicit account of why the arts are special.
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Direct subsidies cannot handle these questions with equal finesse.
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When the NEA was created in 1965, one conservative representative, H. R. Gross of Iowa, offered an amendment
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expanded the definition of art to include belly dancing, baseball, football, golf, tennis, squash, pinochle, and poker.
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Clothes, at least in their fine form, are arguably a form of art.
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art has shown Versace dresses and Cartier jewlery,
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Furthermore, attractive clothes yield external benefits for individuals other than the wearer.
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Nonetheless it is rarely argued that the government should subsidize the sale of attractive clothes.
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The question remains why “culture” should receive different policy treatment than clothing.
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Similarly, the government might subsidize personal looks. The government could provide direct or indirect assistance to the producers of skin creams, plastic surgery, Rogaine, and personal deodorant.
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Sports are, first and foremost, a form of drama.
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Governments do, of course, support sports through stadium subsidies at the state and local levels. But the primary argument for these subsidies is economic in nature, to stimulate community development.
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It is commonly said that institutions such as the NEA bring the arts to democracy, but direct subsidy partisans are less keen to bring democracy to the arts.
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When it comes to dreaming, it may be said that every individual is an artist. Dreams tell stories, involve metaphor and allegory, and are often quite beautiful.
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Of course only a single individual is allowed in the theater
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A variety of harmless drugs stimulate dreaming or stimulate the ability to remember one’s dreams.
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along the lines of a Marxian or Trotskyite fantasy,
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We might go further and postulate that sex is akin to art. It has drama, beauty, and enriches our lives.
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“A pretty girl naked is worth all the statues in the world.”
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And what about toys?
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Most young children are deeply concerned with matters aesthetic. They are fascinated by colors, shapes, sounds, and textures. Most of all, they love toys.
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Yet it is rarely suggested that the government subsidize the purchase, production, or invention of toys.
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For whatever reason, the aesthetic behind toys simply does not count as an argument for toy subsidy.
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Jean Dubuffet perhaps went furthest in challenging the dividing line between traditional forms of high art and the aesthetic experiences of everyday life.
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The construction of artistic aura places art in the hands of academicians and prestige seekers, where Dubuffet believed it does not belong.7
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The decentralization argument does not require such a strong skepticism about aesthetic hierarchies; nonetheless Dubuffet’s position yields a further boost to the case for the primacy of indirect subsidies.
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take seriously the questions of why we do not subsidize toys, dreams, sports, sex, and clothes, among other manifestations of the aesthetic, rather than just subsidizing high art.
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The Prestige Argument
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The decentralization argument has suggested the primacy of indirect subsidies over direct subsidies.
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prestige argument might overturn this conclusion,
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First, many individuals, especially in the United States, enjoy living under a regime where government does not provide much direct support to the arts.
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Polls on this issue indicate mixed results.
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Second, and more conceptually, societies may overinvest in prestige and auras.
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individuals spend too much time and energy investing in relative status.
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Elites may use the aura of high art to exclude outsiders and to reinforce social distinctions.
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In other contexts we argue whether we should tax such behavior, not whether we should subsidize it. We
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Arts policy would bring less prestige if it were viewed explicitly in prestige-producing terms. It is not very prestigious to seek prestige.
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Agreeing to Disagree?
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the initial question of why it is so hard to find agreement about arts policy. That is, why do people not recognize their own fallibility
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meta-rationality
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Arts policy is not just about matters of fact. Arts policy is also about the aesthetic. It is about what kind of state we find beautiful or appealing.
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Meta-rationality does not apply to matters of taste.
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if somebody tells me I like ketchup when I do not, I will not listen,
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If I prefer the Beatles and you prefer The Rolling Stones, how should we proceed?
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In part we hold political views, and adhere to an aesthetic of the state, to feel good about ourselves and about our identifications.
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We want to feel pride in our loyalties.
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People typically do not wish to put their sources of pride up for rational debate.
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Our need for aura and prestige makes us more likely to shut out critics.
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“feel good about the elevating powers of art”
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“patriotism and virtue”
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Defenders of each aesthetic instinctively sense the fragility of that mystery
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So instead of listening, each side reinterprets the debate in a way to feel better about its own point of view.
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Arguments for decentralization and indirect subsidies may, of course, be based on illusion and self-deception as well.
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Arts and the Liberal Order: What Is Culturally Central?
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values as culturally central
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Innovation
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Entrepreneurship
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Charity and Generosity
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Poetry and Philosophy Revisited
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the “longstanding quarrel between philosophy and poetry,” as Plato called it?
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here poetry comes under the scrutiny of philosophy.
Note:GIÀ SOLO IL FATTO CHE HO SCRITTO UN SAGGIO...

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Economics—in this context another form of philosophy—was added to the mix to weaken the arguments for investment in the aesthetic at all costs.
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Poetry (i.e., the arts) is in fact rarely discussed directly in this book. Instead I discuss why some philosophies about poetry should shape arts policy
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In a decentralized system, much of the aesthetic will be furtive and hidden to many outside observers, rather than obvious.
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“True art always appears where we don’t expect it, where nobody thinks of it or utters its name. Art detests being recognized and greeted by its own name. It immediately flees. Art is a character infatuated by the incognito.”
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Rather than subordinating poetry to philosophy, at most I have subordinated the public conception of art to philosophy.
CONCLUSIONE TORNANDO A BOMBA....LA TESI X IL SUSSIDIO INDIRETTO È IN FONDO ANCHE UNA TESI ESTETICA: LA VERA ARTE È INCOGNITA E VA SCOPERTA

TROPPO POCA DISEGUAGLIANZA?

Riccardo Mariani

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Schumpeterian Profits in the American Economy: Theory and Measurement

NBER Working Paper No. 10433Issued in April 2004NBER Program(s):Economic Fluctuations and Growth, Productivity, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship

1. Warring Perspectives

1. Warring Perspectives
Note:l arte va finanziata? 2 partiti che nn tiescono a capirsi. xchè?meglio sussidi diretti o indiretticultura liberale: il valore della diversitàconflitto tra valore ec. e valore estetico: l esperto è un consumatore qlnq?l economista deve demistificare il critico x trattarlo come un consumatore qlqn... x qs è tanto odiatoguardare ai picchi o giudicare dalla varietà dei picchispecializzazione e qualità spacchettatal economia nn muore mai x' è l unico approccio che consente facili comparazionil estetico nn considera i costi opportunità l ec. nn considera valori diversi dalle preferenzeil dogma della preferenza nn è condiviso da tutti. meglio rassegnarsipreferenze poco definite: punto debole dell economiaoccorre una teoria etica.. la ricchezza è solo una proxy x altri valori e nn sempre funzionaeconomista: l arte sussidiata crea esternalità?... esteta: l arte sussidiata crea bellezza?ARGOMENTI PRO SUSSIDIO:1 l argomento dello sviluppo: l arte attira il turismo e bla bla bla... vale x tutte le attività... moltiplicatore e esternalità sono concetti diversi... venezia e il valore della tradizione. argomento cassato2 l argomento del "ci costa poco": a testa... argomento cassato3 largomento della decentralizzazione: il talento è nascosto quanto diffuso vonviene dec. x scoprirlo (hayek). i sussidi possono aiutare il mercato a decentrarsi4 l argomento del prestigio: l orgoglio nazoonale è un esternalità dell arte... i simboli contano4 sembre l argomento sotteso ai finanziamenti centrali: il pop crea + esternalità ma non viene sussidiato... i musei sono un altro segno... l arte fa anche molti danni

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They lament how American artists are underfunded and undervalued by the state, relative to their western European counterparts.
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More significant questions concern the use of our tax system to support nonprofits, creating a favorable climate for philanthropy, the legal treatment of the arts, the arts in the American university, and the evolution of copyright law.
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The central issue is not, as many people suppose, how much money a given governmental agency should receive. It is hard to generate consensus on a question of this kind. Instead a more fruitful inquiry involves what general steps a government can take to promote a wide variety of healthy and diverse funding sources for the arts. For instance should we look more toward direct subsidies or indirect subsidies?
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The American model arguably mobilizes government more effectively than do many of the European models for arts support. We are further from artistic laissez-faire than is commonly believed to be the case.
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The American model encourages artistic creativity, keeps the politicization of art to a minimum, and brings economics and aesthetics into a symbiotic relationship. That being said, the model is not necessarily preferable for all other countries, especially those that trade with the United States and already reap benefits from the American system.
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Insofar as we wish to use direct subsidies, we should restructure them to encourage greater innovation and a greater degree of decentralized support for the arts.
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critical questions in both policy evaluation and political philosophy.
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a liberal vision for beauty and creative human achievement.
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a rich diversity of artistic achievement is compatible with the ideas of cultural centrality and the use of culture to bind a polity together.
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Aesthetics and Economics
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The economic approach seeks to give consumers what they want.
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Economists measure value in terms of willingness to pay or willingness to be paid.
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The aesthetic approach favors products that will “last the ages.”
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Matthew Arnold wrote that “culture is, or ought to be, the study and pursuit of perfection;
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Under the economic approach, high art is simply another minority taste
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American public had more respect for bus drivers and baseball players than for art critics
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economics serves as a radical attempt to demystify the perspective of the critic.
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The Problem of Commensurability
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It is difficult to decide whether Shakespeare’s Hamlet is better than his King Lear,
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How many Gershwin songs sum up to a Shostakovich symphony?

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When evaluating a government policy or a cultural era,
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We care more about the successes than about the fate of every cultural undertaking.
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“Which age has produced the best symphony?”
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What if one culture (modernity?) produces lesser creative titans but produces many more of them?
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we could judge an era by how good its “one hundred best composers” are, or by the aesthetic worth of its “best five thousand hours of music.”
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“How many excellent musical genres does an age have?”
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We have many talented composers today, in many different musical fields, even though today’s best composer is not the equal of Beethoven.
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Mozart’s Don Giovanni has musical beauty, terror, comedy, and a sense of the sublime, making it a favorite of opera connoisseurs.
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what if consumers draw their comedy from one work, their terror from another, their beautiful music from yet another, and so on?
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Yet arguably a world with unbundled qualities is superior, since it allows consumers to pick and choose how much of each quality they want, and from which source.
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Few individuals know much about eighteenth-century culture except for its peaks.
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The economic approach, whatever its weaknesses, has one major virtue. It makes aesthetic values commensurable, at least in principle.
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So if individuals, taken collectively, are willing to pay $100,000 for a new Haydn recording, and $200,000 for a new Gershwin recording,
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economic approach will be invoked repeatedly to adjudicate disputes.
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They tend to evaluate regimes in terms of the quality of the art that is produced, without considering the opportunity costs of that art. More and better art is equated with a better society.
Note:IL GIUDIZIO DEL PURO ESTETA HA UN VIZIO

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The economic approach reflects the view of the common man that art is not everything, or even the most important thing.
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It is hard to see why nonpreference values should not be admitted to a broader decision calculus.
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pursuing nonpreference values is religious, mystical,
Note:IL PREGIUDIZIO

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Economists have long treated merit goods as a kind of “add-on” to standard cost-benefit analysis.
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It also requires that noneconomic values be squeezed into the economic framework.
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The economic approach also performs best when the distribution of wealth is given, preferences are fixed and well defined,
Note:SAPERE BENE QUEL CHE SI VUOLE...SPESSO NELL ARTE NN È COSÌ

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Often art consumers do not know what they want until it is before them,
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The economic method, taken alone, is poorly suited for evaluating such choices.
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Even Richard Posner gave up his wealth maximization standard, in response to scathing criticism from Ronald Dworkin.
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Wealth may be a useful proxy for other values, such as justice, fairness, happiness, and beauty, but if so (and these connections are not self-evident), we should target these other values directly.
Note:VALORI CON CUI SI RELAZIONA LA RICCHEZZA

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How Do the Differing Approaches View Subsidies?
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In the economic framework, the arts should be subsidized only when they produce significant “positive externalities” at the relevant margin.
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arts may improve the social and moral climate
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In contrast, most subsidy advocates start by asking whether art subsidies make our society more beautiful.
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It may be better, all things considered, to have a less efficient but more beautiful society.
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many subsidy advocates subordinate efficiency to the aesthetic, whereas the economist subordinates the aesthetic to the individual preferences
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Rapprochement?
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between the economic and aesthetic perspectives.
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they might produce agreement on a number of practical questions.
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The Economic Development Argument
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The arts generate employment, attract tourists, and produce tax revenue.
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The English composer Henry Purcell was an early proponent of arguments of this kind.
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In the preface to his opera The Fairy Queen,
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the arts add value to a region, but a region adds value to the arts.
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Most urban economic activity both produces and receives synergistic benefits
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but this does not imply that all urban activities require government subsidy.
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Second, social benefits are not unique to the arts.
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The relevant policy question is, not whether the arts involve some positive externality, but whether the “economic development externality” from the arts is greater than from alternative investments.
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We should be skeptical of “economic impact” studies that show the importance of the arts to a community.
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When we look at economic impact studies for one industry at a time, they all appear to show high benefits.
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“multiplier” effect.
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Silicon Valley is an economic powerhouse. Nonetheless the costs of bidding Silicon Valley into Connecticut would probably exceed the benefits.
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when cities court sports teams, arenas, and arts donations, often they are bidding those resources away from other cities. In this regard the gains of a single city (or country) do not always bring net gains for the world as a whole.
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Venice therefore has no comparably effective way of investing the money it spends on preservation.
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The “Free-Lunch” Argument: Small Sums vs. Large Sums
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NEA expenditures, at their height, were no more than 65¢ for each American citizen.
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Some subsidy advocates talk as if subsidy programs literally cost us nothing
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there is no free lunch,
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Arguably there are no major individual “life projects” that will fail to be achieved,
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They die before spending all their money
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In contrast, government subsidies bring large and visible benefits in the form of discrete projects. The beneficiaries notice the difference,
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We take small amounts from many individuals to give concentrated benefits to a few,
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distribution of goodness in society becomes less equal, but our peaks of aesthetic achievement become more beautiful.
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In more academic terms, the philosophical doctrine known as “perfectionism” suggests that societies should seek to reach their highest possible peaks,
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We could, of course, justify many subsidies on these grounds, not just subsidies to the arts.
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The threshold and perfectionist arguments for subsidies have persuasive force, but they also prove too much.
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Subsidies appear less attractive when evaluated as a bundle.
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I am hurt by the taxation of 35 percent of my income.
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Subsidy supporters usually prefer to present and evaluate the subsidy in stand-alone terms.
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Subsidy advocates, when they compare arts expenditures to discrete alternatives, frequently have chosen examples from the military
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Which is the correct comparison to make?
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We started by presenting the free-lunch argument as a potential reason for arts subsidies. But it is also a potential reason not to have such subsidies. Under one interpretation of the choices before us, we are condemning thousands of innocent children to death and disease when we subsidize the arts.
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The Decentralization Argument
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we learn by amassing the cooperation of “the best and the brightest” through centralized institutions. The Manhattan Project
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Other endeavors require more decentralization. Artistic discovery, for instance, is rarely a matter of brute force, or amassing
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Rather we are hoping that the artist can “look at things differently”
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Creativity flourishes when many different visions have a chance of succeeding.
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Along these lines, we can view arts funding as a portfolio or investment problem.
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cultural markets resemble Internet start-up firms or classic R & D problems.
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it makes sense to try many different approaches,
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the American system satisfies the “Hayekian” standard
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the inability of a central authority to plan discovery.
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American arts policy uses government to induce a more decentralized pattern of financial support than would arise through pure laissez-faire.
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development and decentralization arguments are distinct.
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Government does not have the knowledge needed to centrally plan innovation.
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government subsidized research into alternative energy sources, such as synfuels and solar energy. The end result was wasted money and little or no net technological progress with energy conservation.
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Most improvements in energy efficiency have come from market-based institutions,
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Governments usually stimulate discovery best when they eschew central planning,
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The real question is not whether decentralization is beneficial in today’s world, but rather how we should encourage decentralization
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Why We Should Support Decentralization
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The first argument for decentralization invokes the aesthetic approach. In this view more art is desirable, especially if the new art meets high critical standards and can stand the test of time.
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The second argument for decentralization invokes the perspective of the economist, and Paretian welfare economics in particular. Information is to some extent a public good and involves a positive externality.

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Shakespeare, Mozart, and Beethoven all made a good living in their lifetime, but they did not reap anything close to the full value of their labors.
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The greatest creators are undercompensated relative to their efforts.
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One estimate (Nordhaus 2004) suggests that creators receive no more than 5 percent of the value of their innovations.
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Copyright law is based on the distinction between an idea and the expression of an idea. At most it protects rights to the expression,
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The third argument for decentralization also comes from economics. Most extant analyses suggest that entrepreneurs undersupply variety to consumers.
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Note that the weight of these arguments does not suggest subsidies to art per se.
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the arguments establish that we should encourage decentralized financial support for all creative activities,
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The Prestige Argument
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Many citizens take pride in the fact that their country produces art of a certain kind,
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many British and French citizens supported public subsidies to the Concorde
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We salute flags,
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symbolic reasons.
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The French in particular appear to hold this motive.
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For this reason, it is often beside the point to argue that the arts will flourish without direct subsidies in the instrumental sense.
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many observers find something objectionable about the idea of allowing the arts to fall exclusively within the private sector.
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Walter Benjamin’s (1986) famous essay “The Work of Art in an Age of Mechanical Reproduction” spoke of artworks as surrounded by an aura,
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national parks also have an aura.
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Explaining the Pattern of Government Subsidies
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The prestige argument helps explain the observed pattern of government subsidies, which the other externality arguments cannot do.
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the most serious externalities are for electronically reproducible popular culture. The ease of unauthorized copying,
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High culture is less likely to confront an externality of this kind. Many forms of high culture are performed live,
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If Maria Callas performances had not been systematically bootlegged by her fans, her income would not have been substantially higher
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Nonetheless we see few calls for the subsidy of heavy metal music and rap.
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The Netherlands, unlike most other western European countries, has subsidized puppet theater and pantomime. The Japanese subsidize flower arranging.
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In this context we should not think of the aura of opera as somehow “causing” government subsidies to high art.
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Why do we focus subsidies on putting art in museums? The display of paintings in the Bellagio casino, in Las Vegas, attracted more attention
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If “good” artistic works have beneficial social consequences, most likely “bad” artistic works have negative social consequences. Not all art is elevating, ennobling, educational,
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most moving artworks tend to be the most dangerous and to hold the greatest appeal
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In The Republic Socrates speaks of “the war between philosophy and poetry”
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If some artworks make our society worse, the externalities argument suggests that we should discourage them.
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it is a short step from “good art, encourage,” to “bad art, discourage.” Many subsidy advocates will disavow this conclusion (note the contrast with extreme conservatives, who often favor censorship
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the prestige argument can clash with the decentralization argument. The decentralization argument calls for effective subsidies, whereas the prestige argument calls for visible subsidies.
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