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on Cultural Economics |
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Issue of 2018‒04‒23
four papers chosen by Roberto Zanola Università degli Studi del Piemonte Orientale |
| By: | Anja Prummer (Queen Mary University of London); |
| Abstract: | This paper surveys the existing literature on religious and cultural leaders. It discusses potential motivations of a leader and highlights that irrespective of his/her exact motivations, the presence of a leader is crucial for the cultural heterogeneity of a society. The impact of discrimination and government transfers on cultural integration is discussed. Last, the survey examines when religious and cultural leaders emerge. |
| Keywords: | Religious Leaders, Cultural Integration |
| JEL: | J15 Z10 D02 |
| Date: | 2018–02–19 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:qmw:qmwecw:853&r=cul |
| By: | Milena Tsvetkova (Sofia University) |
| Abstract: | This research defends the thesis that digital books reduce the characteristics of the communication medium “book” and are transforming into “non-books”. Two aspects are traced: the foredoom to failure of the commercial (paid) digital book and the end of the digital book in the “book” category. Symptoms for the failure of the commercial digital book are the drop of growth in the market of e-books, the transformation of the book from goods into service, being free of charge, parental and teacher’s resistance. Key factors in this resistance are compromising knowledge and teaching and violating readers’ rights. The reason for the failure of the digital book in the “book”category is determined – the factor of manipulating the content as well as the formats. The conclusion is that investment policies should be directed at publishing of printed books, the designed innovations should be orientated towards the physical issue and to be introduces in the paper and the printing. |
| Abstract: | Исследование защищает тезис, что дигитальные книги производят редукцию характеристик коммуникационного средства „книги“ и превращают себя в „не-книги“. Здесь прослежены два аспекта: первый, это обреченность провала коммерческой (платной) дигитальной книги; второй относится к концу дигитальной книги как категории „книги“. Симптомы неуспеха коммерческой дигитальной книги проявляют себя в снижении рыночного прироста е-книги, в изменении определения книги от товара в услугу, в ее бесплатности, в родительском и читательском отпоре. Ключевые факторы этого отпора мы видим в компрометировании познания и учебы и в нарушении читательского права. Можно указать и на причину провала дигитальной книги как категории „книги“ – фактор манипулируемости и содержанием, и форматами. Вывод таков: инвестиционние политики нужно направлять к изданию печатных книг, а дизайнерские инновации нужно ориентировать на физические издания и выложить их на бумагу и в печать. |
| Keywords: | digital book,ebook,book publishing,e-publishing,future of books,marketing,Librarianship,Reading monitoring,Publishing strategies,будущее книг,дигитальная книга,электронная книга,издательское дело,электронное издательство |
| Date: | 2016–08–12 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:hal:journl:hal-01687962&r=cul |
| By: | Béatrice Joyeux-Prunel (IHMC - Institut d'histoire moderne et contemporaine - ENS Paris - École normale supérieure - Paris - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, ENS Paris - Ecole normale supérieure - ENS Paris - École normale supérieure - Paris) |
| Abstract: | Circulation is an exciting prism through which to conduct research into the art market. It invites us to think in terms of flows and exchanges rather than in terms of stock, prices, and quantities sold or bought. It leads towards an examination of the channels and networks that make up the art market, rather than simply to questions of production and sales. It encourages us to base our reasoning on circuits and mobility, rather than on marketplaces and the balance of supply and demand. From a theoretical point of view, circulation adds a welcome complexity to an approach – art market studies – that sometimes risks slipping into a simplistic economic study dealing superficially in prices, stocks, galleries, dealers, and fluctuations in value. A circulatory methodology challenges art market studies as a discipline to go beyond the conventional tools of economic analysis and a delocalized, or even utopian, application of quantitative reasoning. Circulation is an exciting prism through which to conduct research into the art market. It invites us to think in terms of flows and exchanges rather than in terms of stock, prices, and quantities sold or bought. It leads towards an examination of the channels and networks that make up the art market, rather than simply to questions of production and sales. It encourages us to base our reasoning on circuits and mobility, rather than on marketplaces and the balance of supply and demand. From a theoretical point of view, circulation adds a welcome complexity to an approach – art market studies – that sometimes risks slipping into a simplistic economic study dealing superficially in prices, stocks, galleries, dealers, and fluctuations in value. The study of circulation allows for a view of the art market as a vast series of exchanges and connections that begins in the artist's atelier itself. Numerous parties and elements are involved in the creation of these links. Within any given network, artists, friends, and art critics are joined by transnational mediators such as art dealers, collectors, museum curators and exhibition commissioners. Similarly, artworks are not the only objects in a network: they interact with an array of items and systems that accompany them as they circulate: transport crates, rail and air transport infrastructure, articles and postcard reproductions, magazines, books, exhibition and auction catalogues, and so on. The encounters between the art market's supply and demand thus require us to pay attention to a broad range of social and economic fields. Studying this market through its internal movements also throws into sharp relief the significance and the specificity of each site of artistic exchange within the wider system of such other sites. Lastly, analysis in terms of circulation necessitates an approach that accounts for not only economic dimensions but also for the geopolitical, geographical, and sociological. We could perhaps add to this list a further dimension – the psychological. After all, the circulation and the exchange of artworks, of individuals, and of images is governed not only by shifting prices but also by logics of desire and imitation. |
| Date: | 2017 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:hal:journl:hal-01707369&r=cul |
| By: | Palma, Nuno Pedro G.; Reis, Jaime Brown |
| Abstract: | Do countries with less democratic forms of government have lower literacy rates as a consequence? Using a random sample of 4,600+ individuals from military archives in Portugal, we show that 20-year old males were twice as likely to end up literate under an authoritarian regime than under a democratic one. Our results are robust to controlling for a host of factors including economic growth, the disease environment, and regional fixed effects. We argue for a political economy and cultural explanation for the success of the authoritarian regime in promoting basic education. |
| Keywords: | Anthropometrics; economic history of education; political economy of development.; public schooling provison |
| JEL: | H41 I24 I25 N33 N34 O12 |
| Date: | 2018–03 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:cpr:ceprdp:12811&r=cul |