purpose, and made significant contributions to a variety of fields until the Great Depression, though funding for the arts was … arts and culture, and when corporate philanthropy emerged in the 1950s it was also often aimed at the arts and culture. The … National Endowments for the Arts and Humanities have been responsible since 1965 for the central government contribution to …

American cultural policy is made and executed by multiple governmental entities, with a large part of direct public … subsidized arts, and by tax concessions to private owners who agree to preserve their heritage buildings and sites. The …-for-profit private providers of cultural services results in cultural policy that appears to be and is incoherent, but is characteristic …

creativity. In addition, the specific possibilities for using arts and cultural activities as a focal point in strategies for … arts and cultural industries is discussed highlighting the role of agglomeration of cultural industries. …This chapter critically assesses, from an economic viewpoint, the role of the arts and culture in urban and regional …

The organization of the creative (arts and entertainment) industries rests on many types of contracts. These contracts …-profit enterprises dominate a number of arts activities, apparently for two interrelated reasons. These activities incur high fixed but …

The nonprofit performing arts have received substantial attention in the cultural economics literature, and represent … prominent empirical studies on performing arts nonprofits. The chapter begins with a description of the nonprofit sector – and … the role of the performing arts in this sector – around the world. I then ask why performing arts nonprofits exist, taking …

profoundly affected the arts. They have evidently contributed new and previously unimaginable methods of dissemination and …

that the important legal doctrines that bear on the visual arts can best be understood as rough efforts to promote …