Economics 191AC Economics of the Arts and Culture
Fall 2010
Supplemental
Readings
Class 1 -- none
Class 2
Robinson
“Survey organization differences”
Schuster
“Comparing participation”
Class 3
Felton
“On the assumed inelasticity of demand”
Seaman
“Empirical studies of demand”
Class 4
McCarthy et al Chapter 6 http://www.rand.org/pubs/monograph_reports/MR1367/
DiMaggio
“Nonprofits orgs and division of labor in the arts”
Class 5
Seaman
“Competition and the nonprofit arts”
Courty
“Economics of ticket resale”
Class 6
Eliashberg
et al “The motion picture industry”
UK
DCMS “Technology and the music industry”
Class 7
Caves Chapter 15 “Donor supported nonprofits in the
arts”
Caves Chapter 16 “Cost disease and its analgesics”
Class 8
Caves Chapter 22 “New versus old”
Mei
and Moses “Art as an investment”
Class 9
Caves Chapter 21 “Filtering and storing durable
creative goods”
Blau
“Disjunctive history art museums”
Johnson
and Thomas “Economics of museums”
Class 10
Caves Chapter 3 “Artist and gatekeeper”
Markusen
et al “Artistic dividend revisited”
Class 11 – No readings: Midterm
Class 12
Wali
et al “The informal arts”
Class 13
Brooks
“Public subsidies and charitable giving”
Class 14
Americans
for the Arts and OSU “National and state profiles of support”
Class 15
Madden
“Using economic impact studies”
Class 16
Guetzkow
“How the arts impact communities”
Class 17
Seaman
“Contingent valuation vs economic impact”
Pettit
and DiMaggio “Public opinion and political vulnerability”
Class 18 – No
readings: Review & student
presentations
Class 19 – No
readings: Student presentations
Class 20 – No
readings: Student presentations