No good comparable data on sizes of cultural sectors of the countries of Europe exist. Still, local and national governments of Europe spend substantial resources on culture and cultural sectors contribute significantly to employment and national income. After briefly describing special features...

The "economic" naturally meets the "cultural" because both spheres deal, differently albeit convergingly, with "values" and "valuations". Materially crafted and spiritually charged, tactile/tangible and ineffable/intangible, privately owned and collectively enjoyed, nourished currently and...

Several types of arguments advocate state involvement in the promotion of culture. Many of them imply some sort of subsidy, usually to non-for-profit firms; none favors taxing cultural events. The tax literature, on the other side, discusses excise taxation on culture only as a way to...

No good comparable data on sizes of cultural sectors of the countries of Europe exist. Still, local and national governments of Europe spend substantial resources on culture and cultural sectors contribute significantly to employment and national income. After briefly describing special features...

Culture itself forms society's identity, social values, and formal and informal social relations. This strengthens social capital, which is based on community, citizenship, volunteerism, and social values. These aspects promote effective democratic governance, and thereby ensure economic growth...

Chapter 1: A Pragmatic approach to the arts -- Chapter 2: What values are, and how we learn to appreciate them -- Chapter 3: How Artists Imagine New Worlds -- Chapter 4: How the Audience, as Participant, Makes Worlds Real -- Chapter 5: Making Space for Cultural Civil Society.