The economic interpretation of literature is dominated by ideas derived from Marxism — ideas that demonize the market as the enemy of all that is good. This book, edited by well-known literary critics Paul Cantor (University of Virginia) and Stephen Cox (University of California, San Diego) turns the prevailing paradigm upside down — criticism
Paul A. Cantor, “Shelley’s Radicalism,” in Paul A. Cantor and Stephen Cox, eds., Literature and the Economics of Liberty: Spontaneous Order in Culture (Auburn, Ala.: Mises Institute, 2009), chap. 4. [Chapter 4 from Literature & the Economics of Liberty: Spontaneous Order in Culture , edited by Paul A. Cantor and Stephen Cox.] The real difference
Paul A. Cantor, “Shelley’s Radicalism,” in Paul A. Cantor and Stephen Cox, eds., Literature and the Economics of Liberty: Spontaneous Order in Culture (Auburn, Ala.: Mises Institute, 2009), chap. 4. [Capítulo 4 de Literature & the Economics of Liberty: Spontaneous Order in Culture, editado por Paul A. Cantor y Stephen Cox.] La verdadera
Nothing will come of nothing. Shakespeare, King Lear If, as we are often told, the aim of art is to shock the bourgeoisie, then the contemporary art scene has become positively electric of late. In the most recent aesthetic outrage, a Sardinian artist named Salvatore Garau managed to sell an invisible sculpture, known simply as “I am,” to an
[ From the 2006 Commerce and Culture Seminar , presented by Paul Cantor. ] Now that Marxists have lost the economic arguments, culture is now the last battleground between Marxism and free markets. Marxists say mass production of anything ruins it. But this is elitist thinking. In Marxist thinking, there is a bias against commercial culture. But,
This is a great example of commercial art and a great commercial artist – Shakespeare. Nobody does like competition, but competition, like Marlowe and Johnson, is healthy for culture. Shakespeare had to approach entrepreneurial backers in London who had surplus wealth to invest in a capital project so that people might spend money on
A priceless Klimt painting turned out at auction to have a price - $135 million. Scholarship on painting is sympathetic to markets, unlike scholarship on music. Picasso was even called an entrepreneur. Picasso was quite wealthy early in his career and died a billionaire. Not every artist starves. Painting requires a certain level of economic
There was a conflict between patronage and the market in music, as reflected in the book, Quarter Notes and Banknotes. The classical music tradition is traced back to Paris. The Court of Burgundy in the 14 th and 15 th Century begins to get interesting. Development around Venice and the first operas flourished in roughly the first time and in
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