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Changing the performance : a companion guide to arts, business and civic engagement
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ISBN: 0415379342 0415379334 Year: 2006 Publisher: New York, NY : Routledge,

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Grants for libraries : a how-to-do-it manual
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ISBN: 1555705359 Year: 2006 Volume: 144 Publisher: New York : Neal-Schuman Publishers,


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La néotectonique de l'Ardenne-Eifel et des régions avoisinantes
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ISSN: 03650936 ISBN: 2803102285 9782803102280 Year: 2006 Volume: 3e ser., t. 25. Publisher: Bruxelles : Académie royale de Belgique,


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Philanthropie et grandes universités privées américaines : pouvoir et réseaux d'influence
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ISBN: 2867814022 9782867814020 Year: 2006 Publisher: Presses universitaires de Bordeaux,

Good & plenty : the creative successes of American arts funding
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ISBN: 9780691146263 0691146268 0691120420 9786612087363 1282087363 1400827000 9781400827008 9780691120423 9781282087361 6612087366 Year: 2006 Publisher: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press,

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Americans agree about government arts funding in the way the women in the old joke agree about the food at the wedding: it's terrible--and such small portions! Americans typically either want to abolish the National Endowment for the Arts, or they believe that public arts funding should be dramatically increased because the arts cannot survive in the free market. It would take a lover of the arts who is also a libertarian economist to bridge such a gap. Enter Tyler Cowen. In this book he argues why the U.S. way of funding the arts, while largely indirect, results not in the terrible and the small but in Good and Plenty--and how it could result in even more and better. Few would deny that America produces and consumes art of a quantity and quality comparable to that of any country. But is this despite or because of America's meager direct funding of the arts relative to European countries? Overturning the conventional wisdom of this question, Cowen argues that American art thrives through an ingenious combination of small direct subsidies and immense indirect subsidies such as copyright law and tax policies that encourage nonprofits and charitable giving. This decentralized and even somewhat accidental--but decidedly not laissez-faire--system results in arts that are arguably more creative, diverse, abundant, and politically unencumbered than that of Europe. Bringing serious attention to the neglected issue of the American way of funding the arts, Good and Plenty is essential reading for anyone concerned about the arts or their funding.

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