Media and Culture

In sum, Economics and Culture is a serious attempt to bring economic analysis to bear on cultural issues. It is a fine survey of the cultural economics literature and makes a number of good isolated 

It is much more likely that firsthand inspection by journal editors and reviewers who are relatively more familiar with the subject matter in question will place an appropriate value on the prospective scholarly contributions. 

The efficacy of the decentralized market process is perhaps the foremost contribution of Austrian economics. But if Austrians are correct about the performance of spontaneous order processes,

While criticizing the behavior of Austrian economists, Laband and Tollison assert that their purpose is not to “knock” Austrian economics.

Laband and Tollison (2000) warn that specialized Austrian journals encourage excessive within-group communication at the expense of exchanges of ideas with the broader economics profession.

Quarter Notes and Banknotes is a genuinely interdisciplinary book and shows that an economic perspective can illuminate our understanding of the development of classical music.

What the author objects to is assertions about morality linked to misconceptions and word games concerning money and its functions, property, and titles. Modern money does not consist and does not pretend to consist of commodities. 

Tyler Cowen has two great aims in his new book on government arts funding. One is to explain the distinctions between what he calls the aesthetic perspective and the economic perspective.

In this Journal of Spring 2000, Robert Tollison joins David Laband in reiterating a stretched conception of market test.  Laband and Tollison recommend grading academic performance 

Persons with an Austrian perspective must evaluate the probability that an Austrian message will reduce their publication chances in mainstream journals.