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Pop Internationalism : Has a Half Century of World Music Trade Displaced Local Culture?

Ferreira, Fernando V. - 2010

Advances in communication technologies over the past half century have made the cultural goods of one country more readily available to consumers in another, raising concerns that cultural products from large economies - in particular the US - will displace the indigenous cultural products of...

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Rockonomics : The Economics of Popular Music

Connolly, Marie; Krueger, Alan B. - 2021

This paper considers economic issues and trends in the rock and roll industry, broadly defined. The analysis focuses on concert revenues, the main source of performers ' income. Issues considered include: price measurement; concert price acceleration in the 1990s; the increased concentration of...

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Mental Health, Creativity, and Wealth

Biasi, Barbara; Dahl, Michael S.; Moser, Petra - 2023

Focusing on bipolar disorder (BD), we investigate the link between mental health, creativity, and wealth. Analyzing … compared with the bottom decile. Yet, wealth differences only explain a small portion of the link between BD and creativity …

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The Greatest Architects of the Twentieth Century : Goals, Methods, and Life Cycles

Galenson, David W. - 2008

A survey of textbooks reveals that Le Corbusier was the greatest architect of the twentieth century, followed by Frank Lloyd Wright and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. The same evidence shows that the greatest architects alive today are Frank Gehry and Renzo Piano. Scholars have long been aware of the...

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Wisdom and Creativity in Old Age : Lessons from the Impressionists

Galenson, David W. - 2020

Psychologists have not considered wisdom and creativity to be closely associated. This reflects their failure to … recognize that creativity is not exclusively the result of bold discoveries by young conceptual innovators. Important advances … made significant contributions after the age of 50 with two of their colleagues whose creativity failed to persist past 50 …

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Conceptual Revolutions in Twentieth-Century Art

Galenson, David W. - 2020

Art critics and scholars have acknowledged the breakdown of their explanations and narratives of contemporary art in the face of what they consider the incoherent era of "pluralism" or "postmodernism" that began in the late twentieth century. This failure is in fact a result of their inability...

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A Portrait of the Artist as a Very Young or Very Old Innovator : Creativity at the Extremes of the Life Cycle

Galenson, David W. - 2020

artistic disciplines, and the value of the analysis in explaining the very different relationships between age and creativity …

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A Conceptual World : Why the Art of the Twentieth Century is so Different from the Art of All Earlier Centuries

Galenson, David W. - 2020

This paper surveys 31 new genres of art that were invented during the twentieth century, chronologically from collage, papier colle, and readymades through installation, performance, and earthworks. This unprecedented proliferation in art forms was a direct consequence of the dominant role of...

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The Political Economy of Ideas : On Ideas Versus Interests in Policymaking

Mukand, Sharun - 2018

We develop a conceptual framework to highlight the role of ideas as a catalyst for policy and institutional change. We make an explicit distinction between ideas and vested interests and show how they feed into each other. In doing so the paper integrates the Keynes-Hayek perspective on the...

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The Most Important Works of Art of the Twentieth Century

Galenson, David W. - 2020

A survey of art history textbooks identifies and ranks the eight most important works of the 20th century. The most important painting of the century was Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, executed by Picasso at the age of 26, which began the development of Cubism. Among the other seven works, a...

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