2024年5月3日 · Secretive yet gossipy, illiquid yet always transactional, art is an industry that remains mysterious even to its active participants.

Economics of the arts and literature or cultural economics (used below for convenience) is a branch of economics that studies the economics of creation, distribution, and the consumption of works of art, literature and similar creative and/or cultural products. For a long time, the concept of the "arts" were confined to visual arts (e.g ...

2023年5月24日 · Computers have been making art for some time. Five years ago Christie’s auctioned its first work created by artificial intelligence, “Edmond de Belamy”, a blurry approximation of an 18th ...

2025年3月6日 · The Trump administration’s crypto bullishness means that buying art with crypto will only grow more common. Compliance departments will be busy; auction houses will be richer; and crypto bros ...

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6 天之前 · WASHINGTON (AP) — Noted economist Arthur Laffer warns in a new analysis that President Donald Trump’s 25% tariffs on auto imports could add $4,711 to the cost of a vehicle and says the proposed taxes could weaken the ability of U.S. automakers to compete with their foreign counterparts.. In the 21-page analysis obtained by The Associated Press, Laffer, whom Trump awarded the Presidential ...

Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen and the making of public monuments for over three decades. How a jewel heist created one of our era's most important benefactors to contemporary art. This duo of the Chinese art world treats their artworks not as objects, but as intellectual property and a fulfillment of a conceptual principle.

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EconomistsTalkArt was founded in 2015 to promote and disseminate research-based policy analysis and commentary by cultural economists. Posts are published twice a month and increasingly serve as an accessible way to gain an overview of current discussions in the field.

Over 50 presentations, increasingly with multiple authors and with a balanced gender representation, evidence an active, creative, and engaged community of specialized economists worldwide. By Ellen Loots, Diana Betzler, Trine Bille, Karol Jan Borowiecki, and Boram Lee.