This document discusses the intersection of art, economics, and cultural policy. It covers several key topics:
1. It defines cultural economics as the application of economic analysis to creative and performing arts, both public and private.
2. It explains different views of capitalism and how economies have evolved from an industrial focus to a knowledge and innovation focus.
3. It outlines Pierre Bourdieu's theory of cultural capital and how social class is stratified based on economic and cultural resources.
4. It discusses different economic philosophies like liberalism, social liberalism, and monetarism and their approaches to the role of markets, the state, and cultural policy.
2. Economics
Cultural and Creative Economy
The holy Trinity; the Arts, the State and
the Market
Case study
3. Cultural economy
Cultural economics is the
application of economical
analyses within all fields of
creative and performing arts;
both public and private
Creatives often allergic to
economical analyses; banks
allergic to creative thinking
Q: what is Capitalism ??
Economy is a social, behavioural science
4. Capitalism
NL: Trade capitalists
Transport/mobility
VCO: NV (Joint-stock
company)
Vocational SMEs:
Master / pupil structure
Division of labor
Capitalism: economic system, based on:
1. Private ownership of capital goods and raw materials
2. Profit-driven; demand/supply, competition
Production factors:
a. Capital investments
b. Natural resources
c. Labour
5. Europe in crisis ??
Social developments:
Urbanisation
From industrial production to knowledge
Growth falters; is absent
Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs)
of strategic value
The economic power of the cultural and
creative industry (work CCIs)
' Old School ' is no longer valid: innovation
6. The cultural and creative industries
The ' culture industries ' are those industries, considered
as a specific cultural expressions, regardless of their
commercial value.
E.g.: film, DVD and video, television and radio, video
games, new media, music, books and press, performing
arts, visual arts.
' Creative industries ' are
those industries that use culture as input,
but whose results is above all functional,
E.g.: architecture, advertising and
design and fashion.
7. Cultural inequalities
High and low culture;
real art / popular culture
professional and amateur art
Cultural dimensions: Local and global culture
Cultural, Social & Economic Capital:
Economic capital: command over economic resources
(cash, assets)
Social capital: resources based on group membership,
relationships, networks
Cultural capital: forms of knowledge; skill; education; any
advantages a person has which give them a higher status
in society, including high expectations
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Pierre Bourdieu:
Existence of Social class is a basic social fact
We live in a high stratified class society
continuously, based on economic capital and
cultural capital
The society tries to keep the upper class powerful
and the lower classes powerless
Much happens unintentionally; no conscious
manipulation by the powerful
CLASS, LIFESTYLE AND POWER
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Cultural Capital Economic Capital
Cultural bourgeoisie High Intermediate
e.g. artists, academics
Business bourgeoisie Intermediate High
e.g. company directors
Upper professionals Intermediate to high Intermediate to high
e.g. lawyers, higher
civil servants
Lower middle class Intermediate to low Intermediate to low
e.g. primary school
teachers, nurses
Working class
Skilled Low to intermediate Low to intermediate
Unskilled Low Low
10. Aalborg School: ' learning economy ' culture as open
secret (Bengt-ke Lundvall, et al.)
National innovation systems
Culture defines the ' open secret , ' concealed knowledge ',
cannot be ' transported ' , nor outsourced, specific
knowledge linked to source and location
Culture as a source of competitive advantage (Michael
Porter, et al.)
Globalization: makes displacement production possible
Cultural economy : hard to imitate competitive
advantage (a niche market)
Cultural differences deliver distinctive products and
services (international specialization)
Culture in contemporary economical theory
11. Liberalisme: Adam Smith
Production should be done by individual
entrepreneurs, within maximal freedom
The invisible hand: price mechanisms, supply and
demand arrange the fine-tuning of production and
societal needs
The State as much limited as possible:
1. National defence
2. Legal justice
3. Collective investments of relevance for the economy
where no profit can be made (roads, bridges,
infrastructure, etc)
12. Social-liberalisme: Keynes
Fiscal policy (government taxing and spending)
can be used to control the economy
Government can stimulate demand by
increasing governmental spending
Stimulate employment by public investments
(public projects, improvement of spending
power, labour hours regulations)
Society should be built up form the grass-roots;
corprorate structures, subsidiarity-principle
Short-term strategies are important
13. Monetarisme:
Milton Friedman
Its all about the money, stupid!
Regulate the growth of money
Always fight inflation
Central banks rule!
Growth is defined by the amount of money
available
Thatcher/Reagen: liberalisation of
financial markets, stimulate borrowing
15. Why are artists poor?
Vocation: willingness to accept
low income
At the same time mental
support of society
Distinction: high/low art
No link quality/price?
Aesthetic value = social value
Government encourages
experts' = interference in the
market
Ideology: Artist = unselfish
16. Five explanations
1. Personal gratification, recognition and status
more important than money
2. Artists poorly informed about incomes
needed
3. Grants deliver more Artists, no higher
income
4. Artists rely on other sources of income
5. Cuts in labor (higher productivity) not taken
place in the arts
6. Myth of the individualistic Artist prevents
organized pressure groups (trade unions)
17. Two cases
Utrecht Centraal Museum
Het Huis Utrecht
The assignment: develop a management statement for the upcoming four years
18. Thats
the way
its done!
Rene Kooyman Jan 2014
http://cci.hku.nl/ http://cure-web.eu
rene.kooyman@ke.hku.nl
Introduction
Art and Economics