... Press 2005 Baumol, Hilda, and William Baumol. 1985 . On the Cost Disease and Its True Policy Implications for the Arts. In Public Choice, Public Finance, and Public Policy: Essays in Honour of Alan Peacock , edited by David Greenaway and G. K. Shaw, 67 -77. Oxford: Basil Blackwell. Baumol...

... by sociological and economic scholars interested in structural changes. As high-level advisor for various French governments and a bestselling author, Fourastié remained at the margin of the economic profession. However, an important legacy is the concept of cost disease developed by William Baumol, which is one...

... subdiscipline called “cultural eco- nomics” and with providing a fresh rationale for public support of the performing arts through their discovery of a supposed “cost disease.” The concept is based on a presumption of slower productivity growth in the arts than in the rest of the economy. Besharov points...

... for all products of the economy. Readers can now readily imagine how all of this connects (or, better yet, they can read the book). The innovation pro- cess contributes to the productivity growth of the economy. But that intro- duces the much-discussed cost disease, which increases the relative lag...

... & Sons. Towse , Ruth . 1997 . Baumol's Cost Disease: The Arts and Other Victims . Aldershot: Edward Elgar. Positive Science, Normative Man: Lionel Robbins and the Political Economy of Art Márcia Balisciano and Steven G. Medema When scholars look at the world around them, they do so...

... committee hearing; conference on the arts; and book, monograph, or article on the present and future financial prospects for the performing arts.” As will be demonstrated below, financial crises in general and the cost disease in particular received very little attention from the leadership of the NEA...

...Laurence S. Moss By Warren J. Samuels. Cheltenham, U.K.: Edward Elgar, 2002. 199 pp.$80.00. 2003 Coase, Ronald. 1960 . The Problem of Social Cost. Journal of Law and Economics 3 (October): 1 -44. Pigou, A. C. [1920] 1950 . The Economics of Welfare . London: Macmillan...

... 1980 can be significant” philosophy favored by too many graduate students. Given the quality of this book, comment and criticism can only be minor and nitpicky. Two points are perhaps worthy of remark. There are four brief references to “dutch disease” in the text, but not one of them provides...

... Objectives: Preferences and Value Tradeoffs . New York: Wiley. Klarman, H., J. O'Francis, and G. Rosenthal. 1968 . Cost-Effectiveness Analysis Applied to the Treatment of Chronic Renal Disease. Medical Care 6 : 48 -64. Laplace, P-S. [1814] 1951 . A Philosophical Study on Probabilities . New York...

... discount in the form of higher interest.”8 Thus it was felt that foreign capital would become scarce, and even if it were forthcoming, would cost more. From 1872 onwards, silver depreciation was the main economic problem that confronted the Indian Government, and from time to time...

... 1660-1850 . Manchester: Manchester University Press. ____. 1994 . Consumption: Disease of the Consumer Society? In Consumption and the World of Goods , edited by John Brewer and Roy Porter. London: Routledge. Porter, Roy, and George Rousseau. 1990 . Introduction:Approaching Enlightenment...

... people are supposedly set in their ways and ideas, incapable of absorbing anything new. But old age, unfortunately, is also the time of increasing susceptibility to Alzheimer’s disease and the other forms of “second childishness and mere oblivion: sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans...

... 3 : 265 -77. Tollison , Robert 1982 . ‘Rent seeking: a survey.’ Kyklos vol. 4 . Tollison , Robert , and Robert Ekelund 1981 . Mercantilism as a rent-seeking society . College Station, Texas. Tullock , Gordon 1980a . ‘The welfare costs of tariffs, monopolies, and theft...

... (vol. 2, chap. 12). The question of fluc- tuations is dealt with below. As far as health is concerned, the secondary literature has concentrated rather too much on disease simply as one of the positive checks. Seeninthe context of Malthus’s grand welfare de- sign, disease also reduces the quality...

...H. Spencer Banzhaf Economists have tried to incorporate the environment into the economic calculus by incorporating shadow values of environmental improvements into benefit-cost analysis and by designing policies to price pollution. Environmental economists tend to present these practices...

... public health studies of injury and disease. This seems correct, as Kapp explicitly referred to the kinds of technological controls effective in the industries of food, pharmaceutics, and nuclear power as ways to reduce social costs and guarantee social minima: In this context the burden...

... Reviews 161 lander’s critics. But Hollander has largely converted me in my old age, when people are supposedly set in their ways and ideas, incapable of absorbing anything new. But old age, unfortunately, is also the time of increasing susceptibility to Alzheimer’s disease and the other forms...

... doubted that there would be net advantage to the winner once the costs of acquiring tribute had been properly calculated. 3 Analysis of war thus had a claim for a continuing place on the econo- mist's agenda. Pigou remained hopeful that "wise policy"-guided by insights supplied by economists-could reduce...

... in the 18th Century . New York:Farrar Straus Giroux. Brocklesby, Richard. [1749] 1963 . Reflections on antient and modern musick, with the application to the cure of diseases. In Three Hundred Years of Psychiatry, 1535-1860 ,edited by Richard Hunter and Ida Macalpine. London: Oxford University Press...

... unions ‘and Leftist parties, which ac- celerate the decline of the rate of profit by lowering the rate of surplus value-raising real wages-even at the cost of (hopefully temporary) reces- sion, unemployment, or stagnation. I do not know the international literature well enough to criticize...