The value-based approach to cultural economics

This editorial discusses the value-based approach to cultural economics. While we preach to each other in the standard approach that we do positive economics and are therefore objective in our advice to policy makers, our influence is normative. Policy makers take over the values that they read in t...

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Published inJournal of cultural economics Vol. 40; no. 4; pp. 365 - 373
Main Author Klamer, Arjo
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published New York Springer 01.11.2016
Springer US
Springer Nature B.V
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Arts
Business economics
Civil service
Conceptual art
Conferences
Consumers
Cultural Economics
Cultural organizations
Cultural policy
Culture
Economic impact
Economic Policy
Economic theory
Economic value
Economics
Economics and Finance
Economists
Editorials
Entrepreneurs
International conferences
International economics
Logic
Microeconomics
Music
PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS
Regional and Cultural Studies
Subsidies
Theater
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Summary:This editorial discusses the value-based approach to cultural economics. While we preach to each other in the standard approach that we do positive economics and are therefore objective in our advice to policy makers, our influence is normative. Policy makers take over the values that they read in the standard practice. And that normative impact is huge. The value-based approach provides an alternative vocabulary and with that other values. For where the standard approach bypasses the cultural organizations, the value-based approach targets them even more directly than the policy makers. Last but not least, the value-based approach makes a difference for the way we understand ourselves and what we are doing here.
ISSN:0885-2545
1573-6997
DOI:10.1007/s10824-016-9283-8