In Praise of Commercial Culture

In Praise of

COMMERCIAL

CULTURE
Tyler Cowen

HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS Cambridge, Massachusetts London, England

Copyright © 1998 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America Second printing, 2000 First Harvard University Press paperback edition, 2000 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Cowen, Tyler. In praise of commercial culture / Tyler Cowen. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-674-44591-0 (cloth) ISBN 0-674-00188-5 (pbk.) 1. Arts—Marketing. 2. Arts and society. I. Title. NX634.C68 1998 700´.68´8—dc21 97-40445

Acknowledgments

I have received an unusual amount of assistance with this book. I would like to give special thanks to Michael Aronson and Kate Brick for their work as editors. A number of other individuals also have been of special help, including Colin Day, Martin Kessler, Daniel Klein, Thelma Klein, and Titus Levi. Andrew Levy gave especially useful comments on the literature chapter and Eric Lyon gave especially useful comments on the music chapter. Several anonymous referees offered very useful feedback as well. I also would like to thank Michael Aronson, Andrea Rich, and Thomas Schelling for their encouragement and support during the publication process. I also have received useful comments from Hans Albert, Milton Babbitt, William Baumol, Marvin Becker, Mark Blaug, David Boaz, Peter Boettke, David Bromwich, Peter Brook, Meyer Burstein, Penelope Brook Cowen, Jerome Ellig, H. Bruce Franklin, Jeffrey Friedman, Elisa George, Richard Goldthwaite, Dan Green, Kevin and Robin Grier, David Henderson, George Hwang, Tom Jenney, Paul Keating, Alvin Kernan, Susanne Kernan, Paul Korshin, Randall Kroszner, Timur Kuran, Don Lavoie, David Levy, John Majewski, Julius Margolis, Alice Goldfarb Marquis, Carrie Meyer, John Michael Montias, Fabio Padovano, Pam Regis, David Schmidtz, Daniel Sutter, Alex Tabarrok,... [continues]

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