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Exploring the Economists’ Concern with the Arts

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Art is not such a recent subject of economic inquiry as the usual treatment of this matter by economists might suggest. It is of course well-known to historians of economic thought, as well as to cultural economists, that Adam Smith devoted more than a few significant pages of his “Inquiry” (mainly in the first and fifth Books) to the arts and their consequences on the quality of labor and on social systems. Quotations from Ricardo, Marshall and other outstanding masters of this discipline are also a frequent introductory reference to the main collections of papers in this field over the last fifteen years.

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Mossetto, G. (1993). Exploring the Economists’ Concern with the Arts. In: Aesthetics and Economics. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8236-0_3

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