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Arts to Follow Political Piper?
Author(s) -
Burton John
Publication year - 1985
Publication title -
economic affairs
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.24
H-Index - 18
eISSN - 1468-0270
pISSN - 0265-0665
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-0270.1985.tb01061.x
Subject(s) - superstition , the arts , subsidy , politics , government (linguistics) , political science , social science , public administration , sociology , history , law , philosophy , linguistics , archaeology
The arts are almost universally commended for government subsidy because of their supposed dispersed cultural and economic benefits to the community as a whole. John Burton, Research Fellow at the Institute of Economic Affairs, challenges this superstition and demonstrates it is economically unfounded and impossible to establish from the evidence.