In Praise of Commercial Culture

By T. Cowen. 2000

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Does the market economy encourage or discourage music, literature, and the visual arts? Do economic forces of supply and demand help or harm the pursuit of creativity? This book seeks to redress the late 1990s intellectual and popular balance and to encourage a more favourable attitude towards the commercialization of culture that we associate with modernity. Economist, Martin Tyler Cowen argues that the capitalist market economy is a vital but underappreciated institutional framework for supporting both high and low culture, helping consumers and artists refine their tastes, and paying homage to the past by capturing, reproducing, and disseminating it.

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Creative Destruction: How Globalization Is Changing the World's Cultures (2003, unknown): “Continuing in this tradition of scholarship is Creative Destruction: How Globalization Is Changing the World's Cultures , by Tyler , Cowen of George Mason University.”
Cultural Industries: Product–Market Characteristics, Management Challenges and Industry Dynamics (2015, unknown): “Moreover, the majority of profitable creative work is performed by a minority of artists (De Vany 2004; Menger 1999). Consequently, Oakley (2006) and McRobbie (2002) claim that the creative industries exacerbate existing patterns of economic inequality, and many creative graduates fail to become suc”
Capitalism, cities, and the production of symbolic forms (2001, background): “…form’), just as Greek and Roman artisans or Florentine painters, sculptors, architects, goldsmiths, jewelers, etc., working in relation to the definite political and religious obligations by which they were bound, could still produce masterworks of transhistorical value (cf Cowen 1998).”
Four models of the creative industries (2008, unknown): “See Potts and Mandeville (2007); Cowan (1998, 2002); Florida (2002); Howkins (2001).”