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Paper presented at the Fifth International Conference on Cultural Economics held at the Canada Council, Ottawa, Canada, September 27-30, 1988.

Paper presented at the Fifth International Conference on Cultural Economics held at the Canada Council, Ottawa, Canada, September 27-30, 1988.

Paper presented at the Fifth International Conference on Cultural Economics held at the Canada Council, Ottawa, Canada, September 27-30, 1988.

Paper presented at the Fifth International Conference on Cultural Economics held at the Canada Council, Ottawa, Canada, September 27-30, 1988.

Paper presented at the conference Art Museums and the Price of Success; an International Comparison, held at the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, on December 10 and 11, 1992, and organized by the Boekman Foundation, Amsterdam.

The National Governors Associations Center for Best Practices presents this Issue Brief which is the first of three that will explore and demonstrate effective policies and practices that best integrate economic development and the arts.

Working paper presented as part of the New York Creative Economy Project's 2006 meeting, "Opportunities and Challanges Facing the rural Creative Economy."

Within half a decade, many northern urban communities have begun to take on new economic vigor. Local, private and public leaders have joined forces in revitalizing and improving sagging economies, downtown districts, and residential neighborhoods. By intervening in the community economic development process, public and private sectors are attempting to stimulate the creation of jobs in the near term with the hope that the better market conditions and improved livability will over the longer term attract or retain citizens and businesses.

With the high cost of producing plays on Broadway, the author examines other areas in which new playwrights may have their plays produced. These include theatre companies, Off Off Broadway or regional theatres.

With some notable exceptions, museums have received little attention in the economics literature. The pioneering paper by Peacock and Godfrey (1974) looked at the economics of museums and galleries, with the later work by Frey and Pommerehne (1989) doing likewise but from a different, albeit equally interesting perspective. The work of Hendon (1979) was managerial in focus and was concerned with the issue of efficiency in the allocation of museum resources. Mayer's contribution (1979) was not explicitly economic in perspective, but is none the less of relevance to this paper.

When the U. S. Office of Education was chartered in 1867, one charge to its commissioners was to determine the nation's progress in education. The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) was initiated a century later to address, in a systematic way, that charge.

What we have demonstrated in this study is that given access to adequate program notes, it is possible to extract statistics which give a measure of productivity in the performing arts.

What is the Creative Economy? is the second in a series of nine articles on the Creative Economy.

What explains variations in state financial support for culture? Is there any reason to believe that increased government subvention for the arts might be forthcoming? This paper seeks to provide some answers to these questions for recent Australian experience, using insights from the 'economics of politics' literature in application to pooled data for state and local government outlays on cultural services.

University of Chicago professor Hung Wuy defines experimental art in China, and explains it role and history since its beginnings in 1979.