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In Praise of Commercial Culture
by Tyler Cowen
Markets have been good for art: patronage, printing, recording, film, and why cultural pessimism is usually wrong. Cowen's early, cheerful contrarianism.
Read it if…
you suspect commerce corrupts art and want the other case.
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Skip it if…
you want cultural critique.
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Three things you will actually use
- Markets fund creativity.
- Pessimism recurs every generation.
- More art, more variety.
Do this first
Read the chapter on music.
Our verdict
Cowen on art and markets.
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