Optimizing the Use of Cultural Heritage

Christian Koboldt

Chapter 4 in Economic Perspectives on Cultural Heritage, 1997, pp 50-73 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract ‘Optimizing the Use of Cultural Heritage’ is a title that may provoke misunderstandings. It is therefore worthwhile to start by indicating what will not be addressed here. This chapter will not give an in-depth analysis of the costs and benefits that arise from inherited works of art and architecture, from the preservation of knowledge about a society and its history for future generations, or from a set of shared norms and ideals that are essential for the working of a community. Neither will it tackle the problem of how these costs and benefits can be measured,2 nor how strategic incentives to misrepresent individual valuation can be overcome.3

Keywords: Marginal Cost; Cultural Heritage; Price Discrimination; Historic Site; Tangible Asset (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1997
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-25824-6_4

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