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2007, Volume 31, Issue 1
2006, Volume 30, Issue 4
- 243-261 The cultural entrepreneur and the creative industries: beginning in Vienna
by Richard Swedberg
- 263-286 Cultural goods creation, cultural capital formation, provision of cultural services and cultural atmosphere accumulation
by Sao-Wen Cheng
- 287-304 Combining the travel cost and contingent behavior methods to value cultural heritage sites: Evidence from Armenia
by Anna Alberini & Alberto Longo
- 305-309 Willingness to pay: individual or household?
by Liam Delaney & Francis O'Toole
- 311-316 Tyler Cowen, Good & Plenty: The Creative Successes of American Arts Funding
by J. Schuster
- 317-319 John Carey: What Good are the Arts?
by Michael Rushton
2006, Volume 30, Issue 3
- 169-181 Optimal pricing and grant policies for museums
by Juan Prieto-Rodríguez & Víctor Fernández-Blanco
- 183-200 Selection models in the music industry: How a prior independent experience may affect chart success
by Andrea Ordanini
- 201-218 Distributors and film critics: does it take two to Tango?
by S. Ravid & John Wald & Suman Basuroy
- 219-231 Demand for and productivity analysis of Turkish public theater
by Sacit Akdede & John King
- 233-235 Cultural Diversity and International Economic Integration: The Global Governance of the Audio-Visual Sector
by Anna Herold
- 237-238 Iain Robertson, Understanding International Art Markets and Management, Routledge, London and New York, 280 pp., 2005, ISBN 0:41533957X
by Silvia Bagdadli
- 239-241 A Concise Handbook of Movie Industry Economics
by Chris Hand
2006, Volume 30, Issue 2
- 91-107 Creativity and Life Cycles of Artists
by Victor Ginsburgh & Sheila Weyers
- 109-125 Estimating the real growth effects of blockbuster art exhibits: A time series approach
by Sarah Skinner
- 127-140 The welfare and equity implications of competition in television broadcasting: the role of viewer tastes
by Yong Liu & Daniel Putler & Charles Weinberg
- 141-155 The Demand for Books Estimated by Means of Consumer Survey Data
by Vidar Ringstad & Knut Løyland
- 157-160 Mapping State Cultural Policy: The State of Washington
by Margaret Wyszomirski
- 161-163 The Economy of Prestige: Prizes, Awards, and the Circulation of Cultural Value
by Nachoem Wijnberg
- 165-168 Talking Prices: Symbolic Meanings of Prices on the Market for Contemporary Art
by Calin Valsan
2006, Volume 30, Issue 1
- 1-14 An Artistic Production Function: Theory and an Application to Australian Visual Artists
by David Throsby
- 15-40 Assessing Quality in Cultural Goods: The Hedonic Value of Originality in Rembrandt's Prints
by Elisabetta Lazzaro
- 41-72 The Government's Choice of Bureaucratic Organisation: An Application to Italian State Museums
by Silvia Fedeli & Michele Santoni
- 73-84 A Note on Financial Risk, Return and Asset Pricing in Australian Modern and Contemporary Art
by Andrew Worthington & Helen Higgs
- 85-89 Institutional Economics and the Formation of Preferences. The Advent of Pop Music
by Simon Frith
2005, Volume 29, Issue 4
- 249-275 Competition, Concentration and Diversity in European Television Markets
by Richard Wurff
- 277-297 The Role of Competition in the Rise of Baroque and Renaissance Music
by Roland Vaubel
- 299-312 French Decentralisation of the Performing Arts and Regional Economic Disparities
by Daniel Urrutiaguer
- 313-324 Public Library Fees in Germany
by Lilo Locher
- 325-334 Are There Too Many Revivals on Broadway? A Stochastic Dominance Approach
by David Maddison
- 335-336 Obituary
by Mark Blaug
2005, Volume 29, Issue 3
- 159-176 For Oscar Glory Or Oscar Money?
by Eva Deuchert & Kossi Adjamah & Florian Pauly
- 177-190 Modeling Movie Success When 'Nobody Knows Anything': Conditional Stable-Distribution Analysis Of Film Returns
by W. Walls
- 191-212 The Performance of German Motion Pictures, Profits and Subsidies: Some Empirical Evidence
by Christian Jansen
- 213-231 Cinema Demand In Germany
by Ralf Dewenter & Michael Westermann
- 233-237 Hollywood Economics: How Extreme Uncertainty Shapes The Film Industry
by Darlene Chisholm
- 239-242 The Big Picture: The New Logic Of Money And Power In Hollywood
by S. Ravid
- 243-245 On Hollywood: The Place, The Industry
by Michael Pokorny
2005, Volume 29, Issue 2
- 81-81 Editorial
by Günther Schulze & J. Schuster
- 83-106 Learning-by-Consuming and the Dynamics of the Demand and Prices of Cultural Goods
by Paulo Brito & Carlos Barros
- 107-125 Art for the Masses? Justification for the Public Support of the Arts in Developing Countries – Two Arts Festivals in South Africa
by J. Snowball
- 127-136 The Market for Picasso Prints: A Hybrid Model Approach
by Marilena Biey & Roberto Zanola
- 137-141 Bayesian Learning from Arts Goods? – A Comment
by Carlos Ulibarri
- 143-146 Quarter Notes and Banknotes. The Economics of Music Composition in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
by Peter Tschmuck
- 146-148 Kreativität und Innovation in der Musikindustrie (Creativity and Innovation in the Music Industry
by Michael Getzner
- 148-152 Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity
by Michael O'Hare
- 152-155 Terry Nichols Clark: 2004, The City as an Entertainment Machine, Research in Urban Policy, Vol. 9, Elsevier – JAI Press, Amsterdam, ISBN 0-76231-060-X
by Roland Kushner
2005, Volume 29, Issue 1
- 1-17 Languages, Genes, and Cultures
by Victor Ginsburgh
- 19-33 Employing Travel Time to Compare the Value of Competing Cultural Organizations
by Jaap Boter & Jan Rouwendal & Michel Wedel
- 35-57 State Subsidies and Repertoire Conventionality in the Non-Profit English Theatre Sector: An Econometric Analysis
by John O'Hagan & Adriana Neligan
- 59-78 Expert Judgment Versus Public Opinion – Evidence from the Eurovision Song Contest
by Marco Haan & S. Dijkstra & Peter Dijkstra
- 79-79 Call for Papers
by Patricia Dewey & Laura Young
2004, Volume 28, Issue 4
- 243-256 Convention on Cultural Diversity
by Keith Acheson & Christopher Maule
- 257-261 Comment
by Frederick Ploeg
- 263-266 Comment
by FranÇoise Benhamou
- 267-273 Comment
by Lelio Iapadre
- 275-284 Do People Really Care About the Arts for Future Generations?
by Arthur Brooks
- 285-302 Price Indices for Artists – A Proposal
by Guido Candela & Paolo Figini & Antonello Scorcu
- 303-315 Government Grants to Private Cultural Institutions–The Effects of a Change in the Italian Legislation
by Bruno Bises & Fabio Padovano
- 317-323 Michael F. Brown: 2003, Who Owns Native Culture?, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 315 pp., ISBN 0-67401-171-6
by Tyler Cowen
- 320-323 Niva Elkin-Koren and Neil Weinstock Netanel (eds.): 2002, The Commodification of Information, Kluwer Law International, The Hague, ISBN 9-041-19876-8
by Ruth Towse
2004, Volume 28, Issue 3
- 167-193 Competition and the Non-Profit Arts: The Lost Industrial Organization Agenda
by Bruce Seaman
- 195-216 A Quantitative Approach to Evaluate the Relative Efficiency of Museums
by Antonella Basso & Stefania Funari
- 217-229 Travel Cost Analysis of a Cultural Heritage Site: The Case of Historic St. Mary's City of Maryland
by P. Poor & Jamie Smith
- 231-234 Ruth Towse (ed.): 2003, A Handbook of Cultural Economics
by Trine Bille
- 235-236 Xavier Greffe: 2002, Arts and Artists from an Economic Perspective
by Walter Santagata
- 236-238 Ilde Rizzo and Ruth Towse (eds.): 2002, The Economics of Heritage. A Study in the Political Economy of Culture in Sicily
by Michael Hutter
- 239-241 Hans Abbing, Why Are Artists Poor? The Exceptional Economy of the Arts
by David Throsby
2004, Volume 28, Issue 2
- 89-108 Causality and Museum Subsidies
by David Maddison
- 109-124 Quality in the Performing Arts: Aggregating and Rationalizing Expert Opinion
by Stefan Tobias
- 125-141 Art Auctions and Bidding Rings: Empirical Evidence from German Auction Data
by Michael Beckmann
- 143-156 Are Small Recipients Overlooked by Sponsors? An Empirical Note
by Björn Frank & Kurt Geppert
- 157-160 Ruth Towse: 2001, Creativity, Incentive and Reward. An Economic Analysis of Copyright and Culture in the Information Age
by françoise Benhamou
- 160-163 Joëlle Farchy: 2003, Internet et le droit d'auteur – La culture Napster
by Ejan Mackaay
2004, Volume 28, Issue 1
- 1-20 Beyond the Dogma of the Fixed Book Price Agreement
by Frederick van der Ploeg
- 21-36 The Impact of the National Endowment for the Arts in the United States: Institutional and Sectoral Effects on Private Funding
by Francesca Borgonovi & Michael O'Hare
- 37-56 Two-Part Share Contracts, Risk, and the Life Cycle of Stars: Some Empirical Results from Motion Picture Contracts
by Darlene Chisholm
- 57-79 How Relevant is Transaction Cost Economics to Inter-Firm Relationships in the Music Industry?
by Jonathan Gander & Alison Rieple
- 81-83 Tyler Cowen: 2002, Creative Destruction: How Globalization is Changing the World's Cultures
by Michael Rushton
- 83-88 J. Mark Schuster: 2002, Informing Cultural Policy: The Research and Information Infrastructure
by Steven Tepper
2003, Volume 27, Issue 3
- 159-176 Contingent Valuation and Cultural Resources: A Meta-Analytic Review of the Literature
by Douglas Noonan
- 177-192 Valuing the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
by Adam Finn & Stuart McFadyen & Colin Hoskins
- 193-213 Can People Value the Aesthetic and Use Services of Urban Sites? Evidence from a Survey of Belfast Residents
by Anna Alberini & Patrizia Riganti & Alberto Longo
- 215-229 Using Stated-Preference Questions to Investigate Variations in Willingness to Pay for Preserving Marble Monuments: Classic Heterogeneity, Random Parameters, and Mixture Models
by Edward Morey & Kathleen Greer Rossmann
- 231-240 Willingness to Pay for Submerged Maritime Cultural Resources
by John Whitehead & Suzanne Finney
- 241-257 Contingent Valuation and Semiparametric Methods: A Case Study of the National Museum of Sculpture in Valladolid, Spain
by José Sanz & Luis Herrero & Ana Bedate
- 259-274 The Regrettable Necessity of Contingent Valuation
by Richard Epstein
- 275-285 Determining the Value of Cultural Goods: How Much (or How Little) Does Contingent Valuation Tell Us?
by David Throsby
- 287-290 Ståle Navrud and Richard C. Ready (eds.): 2002, Valuing Cultural Heritage: Applying Environmental Valuation Techniques to Historic Buildings, Monuments and Artifacts
by Lesley Hitchens
- 290-293 Gillian Doyle: 2002, Media Ownership – The Economics and Politics of Convergence and Concentration in the U.K. and European Media
by Lesley Hitchens
- 294-298 Kevin McCarthy, Arthur Brooks, Julia Lowell and Laura Zakaras: 2001, The Performing Arts in a New Era
by Neil Alper
- 298-301 John Sedgwick: 2001, Popular Filmgoing in 1930s Britain: A Choice of Pleasures
by W. Walls
2003, Volume 27, Issue 2
- 79-79 Editorial
by Günther Schulze & J. Schuster
- 81-126 Cultural and Sport Economics: Conceptual Twins?
by Bruce Seaman
- 127-141 Expert Opinion and Gastronomy: The Recipe for Success
by Véronique Chossat & Olivier Gergaud
- 143-146 Chin-tao Wu, Privatising Culture: Corporate Art Intervention since the 1980s
by J. Schuster
- 146-149 Ruth Towse (ed.), Copyright in the Cultural Industries
by Andrew Burke
- 149-151 Michael Benedikt (ed.), Value, 1 & 2 (Center 10 & 11). Architecture and Design in America
by Arjo Klamer
- 151-153 John Trumpbour, Selling Hollywood to the World: U.S. and European Struggles for Mastery of the Global Film Industry, 1920–1950
by John Sedgwick
2003, Volume 27, Issue 1
- 1-1 Editorial
by J. Schuster
- 3-7 Farewell Editorial
by Ruth Towse
- 9-30 The Economic Dimension of the Culture and Leisure Industry in Spain: National, Sectoral and Regional Analysis
by María García & Yolanda Fernández & José Zofío
- 31-56 Public Broadcasting in Europe: Rationale, Licence Fee and Other Issues
by John O'Hagan & Michael Jennings
- 57-71 What Becomes of Undergraduate Dance Majors?
by Sarah Montgomery & Michael Robinson
- 73-75 David Throsby: 2001, Economics and Culture (Book Review)
by Paul DiMaggio
2002, Volume 26, Issue 4
- 245-260 More Means Worse: Asymmetric Information, Spatial Displacement and Sustainable Heritage Tourism
by Silvia Caserta & Antonio Russo
- 261-286 Museum Assessment and FDH Technology: Towards a Global Approach
by François Mairesse & Philippe Vanden Eeckaut
- 287-306 Determinants of Public Cultural Expenditures: An Exploratory Time Series Analysis for Austria
by Michael Getzner
- 307-324 Research Note: Iterative Bid Design in Contingent Valuation and the Estimation of the Revenue Maximising Price for a Cultural Good
by K.G. Willis
- 325-327 Book Review: David W. Galenson, Painting outside the Lines: Patterns of Creativity in Modern Art
by Robert Ekelund
2002, Volume 26, Issue 3
- 167-184 Maledizione! or the Perilous Prospects of Beethoven's Patrons
by Hilda Baumol & William Baumol
- 185-202 Quality Judgements and Demand for French Public Theatre
by Daniel Urrutiaguer
- 203-216 Canadian versus American Art: What Pays Off and Why
by Calin Valsan
- 217-235 Demand for Live Theater with Market Segmentation and Seasonality
by Jonathan Corning & Armando Levy
- 237-239 Nathalie Moureau, Analyse économique de la valeur des biens d'art: La peinture contemporaine
by Olivier Chanel
- 239-241 Malcolm Goldstein, Landscape with Figures, a History of Art Dealing in the United States
by Martha White Paas
- 241-244 Ruth B. Phillips and Christopher B. Steiner (eds.), Unpacking Culture: Art and Commodity in Colonial and Postcolonial Worlds
by Neil De Marchi
2002, Volume 26, Issue 2
- 87-113 Valuing the Arts: A Contingent Valuation Approach
by Eric Thompson & Mark Berger & Glenn Blomquist & Steven Allen
- 115-138 The Consumption of Cultural Products: An Analysis of the Spanish Social Space
by Jordi Sintas & Ercilia Álvarez
- 139-156 Cost-Benefit Analysis Using Economic Surpluses: A Case Study of a Televised Event
by Aliza Fleischer & Daniel Felsenstein
- 157-160 Joni M. Cherbo and Margaret J. Wyszomirski (eds.), The Public Life of the Arts in America
by Bruce Seaman
- 161-163 Gigi Bradford, Michael Gary and Glenn Wallach (eds.), The Politics of Culture – Policy Perspectives for Individuals, Institutions, and Communities
by John O'Hagan
- 163-166 Joseph L. Sax, Playing Darts with a Rembrandt: Public and Private Rights in Cultural Treasures
by J. Schuster
2002, Volume 26, Issue 1
- 1-28 Determinants of Prices for Contemporary Art in Dutch Galleries, 1992–1998
by Merijn Rengers & Olav Velthuis
- 29-52 The Determinants of Artistic Innovation: Bringing in the Role of Organizations
by Xavier Castañer & Lorenzo Campos
- 53-64 The Distribution and Predictability of Cinema Admissions
by Chris Hand
- 65-78 The Sculpture Market: An Adjacent Year Regression Index
by Marilena Locatelli-Biey & Roberto Zanola
- 79-81 Bruno S. Frey, Arts & Economics: Analysis & Cultural Policy
by Stefan Toepler
- 82-84 Richard E. Caves, Creative Industries: Contracts between Art and Commerce
by Michael Rushton
2001, Volume 25, Issue 4
- 243-257 The Law and Economics of Artists' Inalienable Rights
by Michael Rushton
- 259-281 Royalties for Artists versus Royalties for Authors and Composers
by Henry Hansmann & Marina Santilli
- 283-306 What Has the Visual Artist's Rights Act of 1990 Accomplished?
by William Landes
- 307-319 The Evolution of Free-Lance Music Composition, 1650–1900
by F. Scherer
2001, Volume 25, Issue 3
- 157-184 Stardom and the Profitability of Film Making: Warner Bros. in the 1930s
by Michael Pokorny & John Sedgwick
- 185-201 The Supply of Arts Labour : Towards a Dynamic Approach
by Maurizio Caserta & Tiziana Cuccia
- 203-217 A Model of Translations
by Chr. Hjorth-Andersen
- 219-231 In Search of Stylized Facts on Art Market Prices: Evidence from the Secondary Market for Prints and Drawings in Italy
by Guido Candela & Antonello Scorcu
- 233-235 Peter Boorsma, Annemoon van Hemel, and Niki van der Wielen (eds.): Privatisation and Culture: Experiences in the Arts, Heritage and Cultural Industries in Europe
by Ilde Rizzo
- 235-238 Dennis R. Judd and Susan S. Fainstein (eds.): The Tourist City
by Pascal Tremblay
2001, Volume 25, Issue 2
- 77-89 The Double Public Good: A Conceptual Framework for ``Shared Experience'' Values Associated with Heritage Conservation
by Karin Sable & Robert Kling
- 91-108 Explaining Post-War Cinema Attendance in Great Britain
by Peter Macmillan & Ian Smith
- 109-129 Efficiency and Inefficiency in the Ranking in Competitions: the Case of the Queen Elisabeth Music Contest
by Herbert Glejser & Bruno Heyndels
- 131-148 Valuing the Benefits of Cleaning Lincoln Cathedral
by Marilena Pollicino & David Maddison
- 149-150 A Correction to Hilda and William Baumol's paper The Future of the Theatre and the Cost Disease of the Arts
by James Heilbrun
- 151-154 Tyler Cowen, What Price Fame?
by Sherwin Rosen
- 154-155 Neil de Marchi and Crauford D.W. Goodwin (eds.), Economic Engagements with Art
by Mark Blaug
2001, Volume 25, Issue 1
- 1-20 Private or Public?
by Merijn Rengers & Erik Plug
- 21-45 Patronage and Market in the Creation of Opera Before the Institution of Intellectual Property
by Timothy King
- 47-62 The Court's System of Incentives and the Socio-Economic Status of Court Musicians in the Late 16th Century
by Peter Tschmuck
- 63-72 Empirical Evidence of a Decline in Repertory Diversity among American Opera Companies 1991/92 to 1997/98
by James Heilbrun
- 73-75 Frances Stonor Saunders (ed.): The Cultural Cold War: The CIA and the World of Arts and Letters
by William Baumol & Hilda Baumol
2000, Volume 24, Issue 4
- 267-282 Public Funding of Controversial Art
by Michael Rushton
- 283-300 The ``Death-Effect'' in Art Prices: A Demand-Side Exploration
by R. Ekelund & Rand Ressler & John Watson
- 301-319 The Opposition between Two Models of Labour Market Adjustment: The Case of Audiovisual and Performing Arts Activities in France and Great Britain over a Ten Year Period
by Françoise Benhamou
- 321-336 Market Concentration Levels in the U.S. Consumer Book Industry: 1995–1996
by Albert Greco
- 337-340 Colin George Hoskins, Stuart McFadyen, and Adam Finn: 1998, Global Television and Film: An Introduction to the Economics of the Business
by Keith Acheson
- 340-342 Keith Acheson and Christopher Maule: 1999, Much Ado About Culture: North American Trade Disputes
by Steven Globerman
- 342-343 James T. Hamilton: 1998, Channeling Violence: The Economic Market for Violent Television Programming
by Stuart McFadyen
2000, Volume 24, Issue 3
- 181-204 Contingent Valuation of a Cultural Public Good and Policy Design: The Case of ``Napoli Musei Aperti''
by Walter Santagata & Giovanni Signorello
- 205-224 Why Do Companies Sponsor Arts Events? Some Evidence and a Proposed Classification
by John O'Hagan & Denice Harvey
- 225-241 Corporate Support for Artistic and Cultural Activities: What Determines the Distribution of Corporate Giving?
by Mark LeClair & Kelly Gordon
- 243-255 Win, Place or Show: Gauging the Economic Success of the Renoir and Barnes Art Exhibits
by Dick Stanley & Judy Rogers & Sandra Smeltzer & Luc Perron
- 257-260 Sir Alan Peacock (ed.), Does The Past Have a Future? The Political Economy of Heritage; Michael Hutter and Ilde Rizzo (eds.), Economic Perspectives on Cultural Heritage
by Rosemary Clarke
- 260-262 J. Mark Schuster with John de Monchaux and Charles A. Riley II (eds.), Preserving the Built Heritage: Tools for Implementation
by Peter Johnson
- 262-265 Steven J. Ross, Working-Class Hollywood: Silent Film and the Shaping of Class in America
by Sheila Petty
2000, Volume 24, Issue 2
- 87-112 The Careers of Modern Artists
by David Galenson
- 113-134 The Dynamics of Chart Success in the U.K. Pre-Recorded Popular Music Industry
by Eric Strobl & Clive Tucker
- 135-146 Rational Philanthropy and Cultural Capital
by Carlos Ulibarri
- 147-164 Are Popular and Classical Music Listeners the Same People?
by Juan Prieto-Rodríguez & Víctor Fernández-Blanco
- 165-167 John W. O'Hagan, The State and the Arts: An Analysis of Key Economic Policy Issues in Europe and the United States
by Michael Rushton
- 167-170 Andrew L. Pincus, Tanglewood: The Clash Between Tradition and Change
by Arthur Brooks
2000, Volume 24, Issue 1
- 1-26 The Economics of Monomedia and Cross-Media Expansion: A Study of the Case Favouring Deregulation of TV and Newspaper Ownership in the U.K
by Gillian Doyle
- 27-43 A Model of the Danish Book Market
by Chr. Hjorth-Andersen
- 45-63 Programmatic Risk-Taking by American Opera Companies
by J. Pierce
- 65-77 The One-Man Band by the Quick Lunch Stand: Modeling Audience Response to Street Performance
by Roland Kushner & Arthur Brooks
- 79-82 John Pick and Malcolm Anderton, Building Jerusalem. Art, Industry and the British Millennium
by Sara Selwood
- 82-84 Peter Goodwin, Television under the Tories. Broadcasting Policy 1979–1997
by Sir Peacock
1999, Volume 23, Issue 4
- 237-256 The Determinants of Motion Picture Box Office Performance: Evidence from Movies Produced in Italy
by M. Bagella & L. Becchetti
- 257-267 Segmentation of Cinema Audiences: An Exploratory Study Applied to Young Consumers
by Manuel Cuadrado & Marta Frasquet
- 269-283 On the Perceived Quality of Movies
by Victor Ginsburgh & Sheila Weyers
- 285-318 Uncertainty in the Movie Industry: Does Star Power Reduce the Terror of the Box Office?
by Arthur De Vany & W. Walls
- 319-323 Movie Stars and the Distribution of Financially Successful Films in the Motion Picture Industry
by John Sedgwick & Michael Pokorny
- 325-329 Movie Stars and the Distribution of Financially Successful Films in the Motion Picture Industry
by Steven Albert
- 331-332 Tyler Cowen, In Praise of Commercial Culture
by Dick Netzer
- 333-334 Paul Kearns, The Legal Concept of Art
by Michael Rushton
1999, Volume 23, Issue 3
- 137-146 Methodological Individualism and Cultural Economics
by Michael Rushton
- 147-164 Willingness to Pay for Domestic Television Programming
by Franco Papandrea
- 165-179 Network Externalities and Government Restrictions on Satellite Broadcasting of Key Sporting Events
by Anthony Boardman & Shaun Hargreaves-Heap
- 181-190 The Returns to Picasso's Prints and to Traditional Financial Assets, 1977 to 1996
by James Pesando & Pauline Shum
- 191-208 Long- and Short-Term Portfolio Choices of Paintings
by Renato Flôres & Victor Ginsburgh & Philippe Jeanfils
- 209-219 Investment in Paintings: A Short-Run Price Index
by Marilena Locatelli Biey & Roberto Zanola
- 221-232 The Adoption of the Compact Disk Player: An Event History Analysis for the Netherlands
by Harrie Hansman & Clara Mulder & René Verhoeff
1999, Volume 23, Issue 1
- 1-2 Introduction
by J. Schuster
- 3-12 Cultural Capital
by David Throsby
- 13-30 Culture and Commerce
by Martin Shubik
- 31-32 A Tribute to Dick Netzer and The Subsidized Muse
by Mark Blaug
- 33-49 The Subsidized Muse: Government and the Arts in Western Europe and the United States
by Annette Zimmer & Stefan Toepler
- 51-70 The Other Side of the Subsidized Muse: Indirect Aid Revisited
by J. Schuster
- 71-85 State Support and Creativity in the Arts: Some New Considerations
by Bruno Frey
- 87-93 Should Cultural Goods Be Treated Differently?
by Andreu Mas-Colell


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Gothic Dragon by IronshodWatch
©2011-2015 Ironshod
This is a rework of another dragon and cross design I did previous but with a woodland theme. Here I have made it more gothic in style at the request of the poster company I work with. They will be turning it into a 3d lenticular poster, which I am looking forward to seeing
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CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) North Carolina spent several tense weeks waiting last year to find out which underclassmen would go to the NBA or return to school. This time, fresh off a national championship, the Tar Heels don't seem overly concerned by the possibility.
Coach Roy Williams said Thursday night he is gathering information for Ty Lawson and Wayne Ellington to consider a possible jump to the NBA, but no decision has been reached. He said he spoke for about a half-hour with Lawson and his parents on Wednesday night, and had met only briefly with Ellington and his parents.
Williams said there is no timetable for a decision. The deadline for underclassmen to declare for the draft is April 26. Both players submitted their names for the draft after last season before returning to school, an option they can only use once.
Williams said he plans to speak with at least 10 NBA general managers or player personnel officials to find out where the junior duo might fall in the draft.
"I think they're relying on the information and not necessarily my advice because they're going to do what they want to do and that's what I want them to do," Williams said after the team's annual awards ceremony to commemorate the program's fifth NCAA title.
"But I want it to be an informed decision. I'm extremely happy regardless of what they do. I'm extremely thankful regardless of what they do. If they decide to come back, of course, I'll coach them. If they don't, I'll go back and say it again: I'm extremely thankful for what they've already done and that I was able to coach them for three years."
Neither player was available to speak with reporters, and Lawson made no mention of his plans when he briefly addressed the crowd after sharing the team's most valuable player award with graduating senior Tyler Hansbrough.
Lawson was second on the team with 16.6 points per game, unseating Hansbrough as Atlantic Coast Conference player of the year before finishing with 21 points and a championship game-record eight steals in the 89-72 win against Michigan State in Detroit. Ellington was third at 15.8 points and was named most outstanding player of the Final Four after scoring a combined 39 points against Villanova in the national semifinals and against the Spartans on April 6.
North Carolina had been down this road before. Last year, the Tar Heels waited nearly two months for Lawson, Ellington and rising senior Danny Green to decide whether they'd return to school. And after the team won the 2005 national championship, North Carolina had to short wait before finding out that four underclassmen were heading to the NBA robbing the team of its top seven scorers.
Things should be a little more settled this time, with or without Lawson and Ellington. Deon Thompson (11 points per game) will be back for his senior season along with talented big men Ed Davis and Tyler Zeller, and the expected return of versatile senior Marcus Ginyard who played just three games this year before opting for a redshirt after a slow recovery from foot surgery.
Throw in another touted recruiting class, and Williams isn't going to worry too much about the decision.
"I've told them, 'Relax and enjoy the dickens out of this time period,'" he said. "'You don't have to be 75 years old tomorrow.' We haven't pushed it and there's no need to push it right now."
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Jessica Auer and Andreas Rutkauskas are visual artists from Montreal, Quebec. They received their MFA degrees in Studio Arts from Concordia University, where they now teach photography. Jessica Auer's work is largely concerned with the study of cultural sites. From the beaten track to the frontier, she explores places where history and mythology are woven into the landscape, and where contemporary landscape issues emerge. Through the use of photography, video, and mapping, Andreas Rutkauskas' projects have addressed the impact of Internet-based research on wilderness recreation, the borderlands surrounding the Canada/US international boundary, and cycles of industrialization and deindustrialization. They are both members of the Field Workers, an artist collective that will be exhibiting at oslo8 in Basel, Switzerland in June 2015.
Steve Snell (b. 1983) grew up in the suburbs of Columbus, Ohio. After graduating from Miami University in 2006, Steve moved to Alaska and eventually became the art teacher in Yakutat. In 2011, he received his M.F.A. in Studio Art from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He has been an Artist-in-Residence at the HUB-BUB in Spartanburg, South Carolina and at the Wassaic Project in Wassaic, NY. Steve is currently on the faculty at Hastings College in Hastings, Nebraska, where he teaches painting, art history, and adventure-art. His work has been shown in galleries and film festivals throughout the United States.
Daphne Mennell is one of the Yukon's better-known artists. She has a number of pieces in major public collections in the Yukon and in private collections throughout the world. Her paintings are known for their lively colour and movement, depicting the Yukon and Alaska landscapes she loves. Perhaps Daphne's most beloved work is the "Whitehorse Horse", a large metal sculpture that rears above the main roadway into Whitehorse, Yukon. She created this sculpture, along with the caribou atop the Carcross village entrance sign, with the assistance of welder Roger Poole.
Cassandra Loomis is a bibliophile and an avid traveller whose journeys have been inspired by reading one-too-many adventure books. Each new place she's travelled to has infected her with an even greater curiosity to travel more and paint more. She graduated from Virginia Commonwealth University with a BFA and a focus in illustration. For the past 10 years she has been an artist for the Trader Joe's grocery store chain and creates murals for stores across the United States. She also moonlights as a painter of portraits and restaurant murals.
Nicole Bauberger worked as apprentice and assistant painter to David Bierk for five years. This was an intensive education in oil paint, methods and materials, art history, contemporary art practice and art business for Bauberger. She made her first experiments with encaustic and painted her first dress painting in the BierkArt Studio. In the spring of 1999 she left the studio and has been a self-employed artist ever since. She has toured four different public gallery shows across Canada, and has had her paintings shown in commercial galleries and at festivals. Bauberger studied painting in Ontario, and began painting the Yukon in 2001. She moved to the territory in 2003.
Kara Sievewright is a writer and artist who creates graphic stories, prints, zines, websites and books. She has published writing, illustrations and graphic stories in carte blanche, World War Three Illustrated, Broken Pencil, filling station and West Coast Line. She has exhibited her comics and books in Poland, Chicago, Paris, Toronto, New York, and at many zine and comic festivals. She has an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia and is working on a graphic novel with funding from the Toronto Arts Council. She is from the West Coast, but is currently living in Toronto.
Jay White likes to bring his imagination to life through oil and watercolour paintings, animated short films, and through interdisciplinary collaboration with other artists. His career runs the gamut from creating music videos, animated television shows and video games to painting exhibitions and collaborations with theatre and dance companies.
His work as Art Director on the animated series Dragon Booster helped it garner a Gemini Award for Best Animated Series in 2005. Jay's last short film, Boar Attack, premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival, won many Best Animated Short awards at festivals internationally, and was longlisted for Academy Award nomination in 2009. His current animated short film, The Perfect Detonator, premiered at the St Louis International Film Festival, and is now showing in festivals across the world.
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Through long exposures and open-shutter camera movement, her still photography and animated light paintings bring a new palette of textures and rhythms derived from the natural world into the galley setting.
She has been an artist in residence at the MacDowell Colony and Fundación Valparaíso, a Fulbright Fellow to New Zealand, and a recipient of a Sierra Foundation Grant for her work in experimental photography.
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Duck, Demystified: Mastering the Whole Bird
By AMANDA HESSER
Published: January 19, 2000
I LAID two halves of a duck skin side down in a cold pan with a few unpeeled cloves of garlic and some thyme, covered the pan, placed it over low heat and went into another room to read.
An hour later, I turned the pieces.
And an hour after that, I lifted out four of the most heavenly pieces of duck I have ever tasted. The slow, enclosed heat had steamed the meat and softened it like confit. The fat had rendered and, along with the generous amount of salt I had seasoned the duck with, had turned the skin chestnut brown with delicious, caramelized edges.
I crisped the skin in some hot oil, and tasted it right on my cutting board. It was better than many restaurant dishes, and I had actually gotten past a table of contents while making it. My only regret was that I hadn't learned to cook duck this way sooner.
Duck is long beyond its days as the stuffy fare of French restaurants, and has taken on life in all forms on restaurant menus. In fact, there are few menus without duck. Slivers of confit are cradled in spring rolls; wild duck is roasted rare and paired with things like berries and root vegetables; duck breasts are turned into a salty, satiny ''prosciutto''; there's even duck sausage.
And yet, it's hardly a mainstream household food. I've never been served duck at someone's house, and I rarely cook it at home myself. Home cooks seem to regard it in the same way they do a souffle: an appealing idea but a hassle to make.
Truth be told, duck at home is often a disappointment. Most cooks roast a duck like a chicken. Its skin browns. It cooks through. But it is as tough as leather next to a roasted chicken.
Duck needs to be treated differently in order to get the meat tender and moist, and the skin thin and crisp like a tuile. And as I discovered recently by cooking ducks -- many, many ducks -- there are a number of ways to achieve this, and none are the daunting, messy tasks they threaten to be. As Julia Child, who taught many Americans which way is up on a duck, said by telephone last week, it's more interesting and much more forgiving than chicken.
I couldn't agree more. But I would also add that the two are barely comparable. The price difference alone could tell you that: a roasting chicken is about $1.39 a pound; duck is $2.99 a pound. But duck is not just fattier; it is actually a red meat. It has a deep, richly flavored flesh that can be served rare or well done. And its skin, lined with a healthy layer of fat, crisps in a way lean chicken never can.
Restaurant chefs tend not to roast it, instead sauteing the breasts rare and often roasting or braising the legs until they are tender. If they do roast it, they usually roast it for just a short while, and then remove the breasts while they are still rare and return the legs to the oven to finish cooking.
At home, this method is simply ridiculous. No one is going to take a 400-degree duck from the oven, grab hold of it and carve off the breast meat. Besides, I don't agree that this is the best way to eat this bird. When duck is cooked slowly, its fat renders out entirely. As it does, it runs over and through the meat, cooking it and achieving the kind of succulence lamb shanks have when braised for a long time. As the fat melts from below the skin, the skin toasts and crisps, for a great skin without having to sear it in a pan or blast it under a hot broiler.
Which is how I came to the version braised over the stove. Spencer Hugh Levy, the chef at Spencer, near Irving Place, prefers to begin duck breasts and legs on the stove over low heat. He renders the fat, and then finishes the breasts in the oven, serving them medium rare, and braises the legs.
Jacques Pepin demonstrates a similar method in his book ''The Art of Cooking'' (Alfred A. Knopf, 1988). He first cooks the duck pieces over medium heat to render the fat, and then covers them and braises them over low heat until they are cooked through, letting the heat from the fat steam the meat.
I cooked mine longer and more slowly, until the meat was very tender. And I left it covered the entire time, eliminating the typical grease-fest of open cooking.
As it turned out, though, it was not the only way to achieve the results I wanted.
Union Square Cafe, one of the few restaurants to roast its ducks whole, without interruption, has served the same roasted duck dish for more than 11 years. I figured the method was worth a try. Michael Romano, the chef, roasts the duck until it is nearly done, and then lets it cool and quarters it. These steps can be done up to a day ahead of time. To serve, he heats a saute pan, puts the pieces in skin side down to begin crisping them, and then covers them and transfers them to a hot oven to heat through.
It's foolproof. When I did it at home, the meat was tender, not meltingly soft. But the skin was as dark as a hazelnut and crunched like a potato chip. And there was no worry of having to wrestle the carcass while carving it as people were waiting at the table.
A friend mentioned the slow-roasting method. I liked the image of putting the duck in the oven and letting it do its thing. I modeled my method after one by Greg Sonnier, the chef at both Gabrielle and Gamay Bistro, in New Orleans, who keeps slow-roasted duck on the menus. His recipe, with a sauce of orange juice, sherry and soy sauce, was a little more complex than what I was looking for. I just stuffed the duck with root vegetables -- carrots, turnips, garlic, shallots, beets -- and placed it in a roasting pan, surrounded by more vegetables. Those inside helped keep the breast moist; those outside roasted slowly in the fat.


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In October we announced an incredible sweepstakes: a chance to win a trip to Los Angeles to have dinner with Modern Family stars Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Eric Stonestreet.
Well this past weekend our winner, Sharon, a retired software developer and grandmother from New Hampshire, and her daughter Laurel traveled to LA and met up with Jesse and Eric for dinner in Hollywood.
Jesse and Eric were incredible hosts, and could not have been more gracious. Coincidentally, Glee's Jane Lynch was seated at the table next to them and stopped by for a quick chat!
Sharon, who is an avid stock trader, provided Jesse and Eric with a few good investment recommendations and talked about her support for equality. Her granddaughter, who is a huge Modern Family fan, was disappointed that her mom got to accompany Sharon while she stayed home to go to school. But Jesse and Eric made sure to autograph a quick note to her to make sure she was missed at the dinner.
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This is a 2 part video tutorial on how to take a model created in 3D Studio Max 2008, apply textures to it, and export the textured model into the Crysis: Sandbox 2 editor.
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(Also, this shows some of the work that we've been doing on our level, Border - just as a sneaky peak for you lot.)
Hows CE3 doing?
The editor(from the beta) is amazing.
We're building up assets and work in preparation for the move to CE3 on its release at present.. we'll announce when we've done so.
Very nice. Thanks for that tutorial. Nice to see some in-game shots as well.
Though I must say cram some more polys into that house and like chamfer those corners and add detail around windows and doors. Like frames and such and perhaps some gutters. Now it looks very much like a box (and for what i saw in the video the others were quite box like too).
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Add some dirt/moss/leafs or something to bring out its an old house.
The rest of the environment looks nice!
Really looking forward to play the game. I have been following this for quite a while now.
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First, please bare in mind the area and work we've put in is still very much a work in progress. A lot may change between now and the tech demos release!
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Absolutely loved my skydive on Friday!! Still buzzing 3 days later! And to top it off ive raised around 2k (to be finalised!) for Alzheimer's - a charity that is really close to my heart. Thanks especially to Lee my tandem instructor & cameraman Buzz!!! Cannot wait to see the pictures & dvd and re-live it all over again! Soooo tempted to come back and do a solo jump now , ive definitely got the skydiving bug!! Definitely one of those 'bucket list' things that everybody should do at least once in their lifetime! Maybe see you all again soon
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Beautiful day for my first tandem skydive. To say that I wasn't nervous would be an understatement, although all the staff were excellent at the centre and explained what was going on. It was one of the most exciting things I have ever done and I am sure I will be back again..... this is the start of Skydiving for me I think !! A massive thankyou to Paul my instructor for getting me to the ground safely :) and also to Lee who filmed my experience... wouldn't have been the same without it !!!!
Dear Team, I'm not going to put a comment on your guestbook because I didnt actually do a skydive, however, I just wanted to say a huge thank you for a brillant day on the 15th March. My daughter (Natasha Cooper) did a charity tandem with Tony Lightfoot. Your whole team were fantastic throughtout the day (even when everything was delayed due to the Royal fly over)and made her day spectacular and the experience (not just the jump but the welcome she and I recieved from your team) helped her with her confidence and self esteem. Her jump wasnt till the end of the day but while we waited we were warmly welcomed by staff and regulars alike which added to the experience. A big thank you to Ange too for the drinks. I would deffinatly recommend your centre to anyone purly on the fact that everyone is made welcome whether they are jumping or not. Who knows - if i loose a little weight I may come back myself next year :S
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When the San Diego Chargers took Illinois defensive tackle Corey Liuget with the No. 18 overall pick in the April draft, some were surprised in NFL circles.
Some league observers didn't think Liuget is a perfect fit for the Chargers' 3-4 defense. However, the Chargers aren't worried about it and expect Liuget, who will start at defensive end, to have a seamless transition to the 3-4 defense.
New San Diego defensive coordinator Greg Manusky told the team's website that he has no doubt Liuget will excel in the 3-4 defense. Manusky simply thinks Liuget is the type of defender who can help in any scheme.
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• Defiance County
Cancels procedures: Due to dangerous weather and hazardous driving conditions, ProMedica Defiance Regional Hospital has cancelled all elective procedures for today. This includes all outpatient and diagnostic procedures such as mammograms, radiology procedures, oncology treatments, sleep studies and rehab appointments. All appointments will be rescheduled for a later date.
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• Paulding County
Meeting set: The Paulding Village Council will meet at 6:30 p.m. Jan. 21. Its meeting on Monday was canceled because of the weather.
Ribbon cutting: The ribbon cutting for Real Waste Disposal Inc., 106 E. Jackson St., Paulding, has been canceled for today and rescheduled for 10 a.m. Jan. 14.
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Visitors may meet career center staff and tour the campus to see the advanced equipment and modern facilities in the thirty career and technical programs available to high school juniors and seniors from associate high schools in Defiance, Fulton, Henry, and Williams counties. Visitors will learn how Four County students stay a step ahead of the competition as they complete their junior and senior years in high school. Online enrollment will be available for the 2014-15 school year while guests enjoy refreshments and door prizes throughout the evening.
Four County Career Center is in its 45th year offering quality education to high school students and adults in northwest Ohio.
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I still love gap4 for some purposes, but it gets pretty slow when
dealing with >500,000 454FLX-Reads ...
Is there some kind of roadmap for the development of "gap5"?
When will there be a "release candidate"?
A good question!
Progress has been very stop and start depending on the multitude of other interruptions, but I plan on getting a limited test release by the end of the year.
Right now it works OK as a viewer of sequence. A more zoomed out graphical view of templates exists, but needs more work (it's a bit slow but I know ways of speeding it up considerably). Editing is coming along. Some things can be edited (basecalls obviously), but I haven't yet written the full gamut needed such as moving traces, inserting/deleting to consensus, etc.
Then there are MANY missing features from Gap4. The most important are contig joining, contig breaking, tags/annotations and searching. That's quite fundamental though. I'm not sure how much will be done by the end of the year, but I plan on releasing whatever it's up to at that point as an alpha test at least for people to give feedback on.
PS. As for Gap4, I just fixed another issue with large databases where it couldn't cope with the .aux file over 2Gb. We successfully now have a Gap4 database with about 8 million FLX reads, but it's SLOW and memory hungry (about 7Gb).
Sven Klages
huuh, .. 8 mio FLX reads? I don't want to "finish" such kind of
project ;-)
So I'll keep patiently waiting ..
Thanks for the info,