Cultivating Cultural Wellbeing

Lisa Marriott

No 373501, Competition & Regulation Times from New Zealand Institute for the Study of Competition and Regulation

Abstract: New Zealand's political capital prides itself as also being the nation's 'Arts and Culture Capital'. But what returns do its ratepayers - and those of other New Zealand local authorities - get from financial support provided to libraries, museums, art galleries, heritage resources, visual and performing arts, festivals and other community and cultural activities? Lisa Marriott sees little evidence that local government spending on cultural activities in New Zealand is correlated with local economic growth - which tends to suggest that such spending occurs because the funders think that consuming culture is 'better for us' than we individually consider it to be.

Date: 2012-03-01
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