Valuing the arts: pitfalls in economic impact studies of arts festivals

Title: Valuing the arts: pitfalls in economic impact studies of arts festivals
Creator: Snowball, Jeanette D, Antrobus, Geoffrey G
Date: 2002
Type: text
Type: article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/143145
Identifier: vital:38205
Identifier: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1813-6982.2002.tb00067.x
Description: Economic impact studies have been used to measure the value of a variety of public and mixed goods, such as arts festivals, sports facilities and educational institutions, partly to motivate for public funds. The attraction of this sort of study rests largely on the fact that it produces a quantifiable monetary measure of the value of a project as opposed to a less easily valued qualitative study. “Public officials, boosters and the media accept the ‘quantifiable’ which appears to represent reality in order to justify a desired project” (Johnson and Sack 1996:370).
Format: 23 pages, pdf
Language: English
Relation: South African Journal of Economics, Snowball, J.D. and Antrobus, G.G., 2002. Valuing the arts: Pitfalls in economic impact studies of arts festivals. South African Journal of Economics, 70(8), pp.1297-1319., South African Journal of Economics volume 70 number 8 1297 1319 December 2002 1813-698
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Antrobus, Geoffrey Gordon (Prof Emeritus)

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RU Department of Economics and Economic History

SDG 08. Decent Work and Economic Growth

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