December 22, 2020
CULTURAL HERITAGE AND NATURAL DISASTERS: THE INSURANCE CHOICE OF THE ITALIAN CATHEDRALS
By Francesco De Masi and Donatella Porrini Given the threat of natural disasters to Cultural Heritage, this paper aims to analyze the diffusion of...
December 8, 2020
“IN THE MOOD FOR TECHNOLOGY?”: DIGITAL AND CINEMA
By Pierre-Jean Benghozi Digital companies have invested the film industry by imposing their economic models. Meanwhile, a less disruptive “Art and Science” model of...
November 24, 2020
INVENTING CULINARY HERITAGE
By Sophie Marie Cappelen and Jesper Strandgaard Pedersen How can you invent a novel cuisine and culinary heritage? The study explores how a group...
November 10, 2020
ARE INTERNSHIPS IN THE CULTURAL INDUSTRY (UN)FAIR? A STUDY OF THE DEMAND SIDE
By Ellen Loots and Rūta Skujiņa Work in the cultural industry has been labelled ‘affective labour’: many workers experience a strong affective attachment to...
October 27, 2020
WHAT EDITORS TALK ABOUT WHEN THEY TALK ABOUT EDITORS? AN ANALYSIS OF PUBLIC INTERVIEWS SEARCHING FOR MARKET AND AESTHETIC LOGICS
By Luca Pareschi and Maria Lusiani The supposed conflict between aesthetic values and market logics has long been heating the debate among scholars in...
October 13, 2020
REPORT FROM BROOKLYN ON THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF ART DURING CORONAVIRUS TIME
By Cameron Weber In Weber (2017), I introduce the category “art statism” to describe when the state, as defined by Max Weber (1919), uses...
September 29, 2020
TOOLS FOR THE FUTURE IN LJUBLJANA, RESEARCHING ART MARKETS AND GLOBAL SCIENTIFIC “ONLINE” TURMOIL
By Andrej Srakar Beginning of September was time for the fifth workshop in the series Tools for the Future: Researching Art Market Practices from...
September 15, 2020
DIGITAL PIRACY AND THE PERCEPTION OF PRICE FAIRNESS: EVIDENCE FROM A FIELD EXPERIMENT
By Anna Kukla‑Gryz, Joanna Tyrowicz, Michał Krawczyk Digital piracy is an interesting case of an extremely common activity with a rather shady ethical and legal status. One...
September 1, 2020
TESTING THE CULTURAL CAPITAL REPRODUCTION THEORY IN COLOMBIA
By Nora Elena Espinal-Monsalve, Andrey David Ramos-Ramírez y Luz Yadira Gómez-Hernández The relationship between cultural reproduction and cultural consumption can be framed from the...
August 18, 2020
FROM CULTURAL HERITAGE TO DEVELOPMENT THROUGH CREATIVITY
By Silvia Cerisola The idea that cultural heritage may have a positive impact on economic development has been spreading for the last twenty years....
July 21, 2020
CREATIVE INDUSTRIES AND THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC – CALL FOR CHAPTERS
By Elisa Salvador, Trilce Navarrete and Andrej Srakar We end this academic year of EconomistsTalkArt.org posts with description of a new call for book...
July 7, 2020
DOES MUSIC SOOTHE THE SOUL?
By Jonathan Daniel Gómez‐Zapata, Luis César Herrero‐Prieto, and Beatriz Rodríguez‐Prado Music is linked to human senses and emotions and is one of the most...
June 23, 2020
THE USE OF IRONIC HUMOR IN FESTIVAL BRANDING
By Kati Suomi and Mervi Luonila Ironic humor can be a powerful technique for attracting attention in the field of arts. It can be...
June 9, 2020
EFFECTS OF COVID-19 IN BRAZILIAN CULTURAL ECONOMICS
By Ana Flávia Machado, Débora Freire, Rodrigo Cavalcante Michel, Gabriel Vaz de Melo, and Alice Demattos Guimarães The Covid-19 global pandemic has drastically changed...
June 2, 2020
POLICING ART CRIME
By Naomi Oosterman In the cold winter’s night of 9 to 10 January 2005, criminals left a devastating scene at the Westfries Museum in...
May 12, 2020
TEACHING CULTURAL ECONOMICS
By Trine Bille, Anna Mignosa and Ruth Towse Is busking a source of income? What is the role of copyright for creators and performers?...
