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This book provides a novel approach to the understanding and
realization of the values of art. It argues that art has often been
instrumentalized for state-building, to promote social inclusion of
diversity, or for economic purposes such as growth or innovation.
To counteract that, the authors study the values that artists and
audiences seek to realize in the social practices around the arts.
They develop the concept of cultural civil society to analyze how
art is practiced and values are realized in creative circles and
co-creative communities of spectators, illustrated with
case-studies about hip-hop, Venetian art collectives, dance
festivals, science-fiction fandom, and a queer museum. The authors
provide a four-stage scheme that illustrates how values are
realized in a process of value orientation, imagination,
realization, and evaluation. The book relies on an
interdisciplinary approach rooted in economics and sociology of the
arts, with an appreciation for broader social theories. It
integrates these disciplines in a pragmatic approach based on the
work of John Dewey and more recent neo-pragmatist work to recover
the critical and constructive role that cultural civil society
plays in a plural and democratic society. The authors conclude with
a new perspective on cultural policy, centered around state
neutrality towards the arts and aimed at creating a legal and
social framework in which social practices around the arts can
flourish and co-exist peacefully.
This book argues that the work of the Austrian economists,
including Carl Menger, Joseph Schumpeter, Ludwig von Mises and
Friedrich Hayek, has been too narrowly interpreted. Through a study
of Viennese politics and culture, it demonstrates that the project
they were engaged in was much broader: the study and defense of a
liberal civilization. Erwin Dekker shows the importance of the
civilization in their work and how they conceptualized their own
responsibilities toward that civilization, which was attacked left
and right during the interwar period. Dekker argues that what
differentiates their position is that they thought of themselves
primarily as students of that civilization rather than as social
scientists, or engineers. This unique focus and approach is related
to the Viennese setting of the circles, which constitute the heart
of Viennese intellectual life in the interwar period.
Jan Tinbergen was the first Nobel Prize winner in Economics and one
of the most influential economists of the 20th century. This book
argues that his crucial contribution is the theory of economic
policy and the legitimation of economic expertise in service of the
state. It traces his youthful socialist ideals which found
political direction in the Plan-socialist movement of the 1930s for
which he developed new economic models to combat the Great
Depression. After World War II he was able to synthesize that work
into a theory of economic policy which not only provided a lasting
framework for economic policy around the world, but also secured a
permanent place for economic experts close to government. The book
then turns to an examination of his attempt to repeat this
achievement in the development projects in the Global South and at
the international level for the United Nations.
Knowledge commons facilitate voluntary private interactions in
markets and societies. These shared pools of knowledge consist of
intellectual and legal infrastructures that both enable and
constrain private initiatives. This volume brings together
theoretical and empirical approaches that develop and apply the
Governing Knowledge Commons framework to the evolution of various
kinds of shared knowledge structures that underpin exchanges of
goods, services, and ideas. Chapters offer vivid and illuminating
case studies that illustrate this conceptual framework. How did
pooling scientific knowledge enable the Industrial Revolution? How
do social networks underpin the credit system enabling the Agra
footwear market? How did the market category Scotch whisky emerge
and who has access to it? What is the potential of
blockchain-ledgers as shared knowledge repositories? This volume
demonstrates the importance of shared knowledge in modern society.
This book argues that the work of the Austrian economists,
including Carl Menger, Joseph Schumpeter, Ludwig von Mises and
Friedrich Hayek, has been too narrowly interpreted. Through a study
of Viennese politics and culture, it demonstrates that the project
they were engaged in was much broader: the study and defense of a
liberal civilization. Erwin Dekker shows the importance of the
civilization in their work and how they conceptualized their own
responsibilities toward that civilization, which was attacked left
and right during the interwar period. Dekker argues that what
differentiates their position is that they thought of themselves
primarily as students of that civilization rather than as social
scientists, or engineers. This unique focus and approach is related
to the Viennese setting of the circles, which constitute the heart
of Viennese intellectual life in the interwar period.
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