Cultural goods creation, cultural capital formation, provision of cultural services and cultural atmosphere accumulation

Sao-Wen Cheng ()

Journal of Cultural Economics, 2006, vol. 30, issue 4, pages 263-286

Abstract: The cultural atmosphere in a society is accumulated over time through the consumption of cultural services and is diminished through depreciation. Using cultural capital (e.g., cultural heritage, paintings, music scores), cultural services are provided by the cultural-services industry (e.g., museums, opera houses); cultural capital is enlarged by new cultural goods created by individuals. Individuals’ utilities are positively affected by the cultural services they consume, by the cultural goods they create and by the cultural atmosphere and the cultural capital accumulated in society. In a laissez-faire economy, individuals tend to ignore the positive external effects of their cultural-services consumption and creation of cultural goods on other individuals via accumulating cultural atmosphere and cultural capital. Consequently, suboptimally little cultural atmosphere and cultural capital will be accumulated. The efficient intertemporal allocation can be restored by introducing an appropriate subsidy that not only stimulates consumers’ demand for cultural services and the creation of new cultural goods but also enhances the accumulation of cultural atmosphere and cultural capital. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2006

Keywords: Cultural atmosphere; Cultural capital; Cultural goods; Cultural services; H2; H3; Z1 (search for similar items in EconPapers)

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