Arts, Sciences, and Economics (eBook)

A Historical Safari

Tönu Puu (Autor)

eBook Download: PDF

2006
XII, 194 Seiten
Springer Berlin (Verlag)
978-3-540-34424-7 (ISBN)

Infos

This book deals with the economic aspects of changing attitudes in arts and sciences. The effects of the public good character of culture, along with the very long production period and lifetime for its products, are emphasized, since both contribute to the failure of normal market solutions. Embodiment of ideas, and the consequences of modern reproduction technology for protection of property rights are closely examined.

Inhalt

Preface 5
Contents 8
1 Culture and Civilization 12
1.1 Current Threats 12
1.2 Reversed Perspective 13
1.3 Civilization: Frazer 15
1.4 Embodiment 16
1.5 Specialization: Castiglione 16
1.6 Development 17
1.7 Circularity 18
1.8 Layout of the Book 18
2.1 The Concept 19
2 Public Goods 19
2.2 Embodied Ideas 20
2.3 Vivaldi’s Oevre 20
2.4 Attitudes to Culture 23
2.5 Protection of Originals 27
2.6 The Marais 28
2.7 Paris and Vienna 29
2.8 Piazza San Pietro 30
2.9 Performing Arts 31
2.10 Property Rights 32
2.11 Trade Secrets 33
2.12 The Stock of Knowledge 35
2.13 Knowledge and Capital 36
2.14 Embodied Knowledge 37
2.15 Storage 38
2.16 Accessibility 39
2.17 Compactification 40
2.18 University Cultures 41
3.1 Introduction 43
3 Patronage 43
3.2 Diversity of Institutions 44
3.3 Uncertainty in Production 45
3.4 Risk and Insurance 46
3.5 Patronage in Culture 49
4.1 Background 55
4.2 Dissipation of Culture 55
4 Changing Attitudes 55
4.3 Leisure 58
4.4 Addiction 60
4.5 Dilettantism 62
4.6 Schliemann, Fermat, and Galois 63
4.7 Specialization 67
4.8 The Ultimate Purpose 67
4.9 Florence and Vienna 70
4.10 The Fin-de-Siècle 76
4.11 Nonlinearities 78
4.12 Superstars 79
4.13 Removing Constraints 80
4.14 Historical Monuments 81
4.15 Standardization 82
4.16 Concentration 83
5.1 Logical Empiricism 86
5 Evolution in Science 86
5.2 Newton, Kepler, and Galileo 87
5.3 Refutation 87
5.4 Approximate Truth 89
5.5 Ad Hoc Explanation 90
5.6 Normal Science 90
5.7 Supertheories 92
5.8 Schumpeter 92
5.9 Reductionism 93
5.10 Generalization 94
5.11 Hilbert’s Programme 95
5.12 Gödel 96
5.13 Chaos and Predictability 96
5.14 Laplace 97
5.15 The Weather Factory 97
5.16 Social Engineering 98
5.17 Poincaré 99
5.18 Linearity 101
5.19 Lorenz 102
5.20 Aesthetic Principles 104
5.21 Maupertuis 104
5.22 Leibnitz 107
5.23 Metaphysics 107
5.24 Aesthetics 108
5.25 Computers and Visuality 112
5.26 Ethics 116
5.27 Pioneers 117
5.28 Pseudoscience 121
5.29 Female Scientists 123
6.1 The Role of Art in the Society 126
6 Perfection in Art 126
6.2 A Unique Opportunity 127
6.3 The Baroque Transition 128
6.4 To Romanticism 129
6.5 Musical Instruments 131
6.6 A Fast Transition 134
6.7 Discovery in Art 135
6.8 Rediscovery in Music 142
6.9 Tuning and Temperament 148
6.10 The Modern Harpsichord 150
6.11 Back to Originals 154
6.12 The Early Music Revival 157
6.13 Meaning and Beauty 159
6.14 Harnoncourt 159
6.15 Rhetoric in Music 161
6.16 Art and Science 161
6.17 Art as Sedative 164
7.1 Introduction 166
7 Economic Principles 166
7.2 Böhm-Bawerk and Smith 167
7.3 Increasing Complexity 168
7.4 The Development Tree 169
7.5 Continuous Evolution 172
7.6 Diversification 175
7.7 Property Space 176
7.8 Paretian Ordering 177
7.9 Prices and Progress 178
7.10 Branching Points 179
7.11 Music Automata 182
7.12 Bifurcations 183
7.13 Synergetics 185
7.14 Viable Alternatives 186
7.15 A "Genesis" of Musical Instruments 187
7.16 Summary 191
Classics (before 1800) 193
References 193
Modern (1800 to our days) 194
Chapter 2 197
Figures 197
Chapter 3 198
Chapter 4 198
Chapter 5 199
Chapter 6 199
Chapter 7 201

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 26.8.2006
• Zusatzinfo: XII, 194 p. 54 illus.
• Verlagsort: Berlin
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Malerei / Plastik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Architektur
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre
• Schlagworte: Art History • Bifurcation • Complexity • Culture • Darwian evolution • economics of arts and sciences • Kunst • Musik • Nation • Production • property rights
• ISBN-10: 3-540-34424-1 / 3540344241
• ISBN-13: 978-3-540-34424-7 / 9783540344247