Economic Perspectives on Cultural Heritage

252 Pages·1997·25.314 MB·English

by  Michael Hutter, Ilde Rizzo (eds.)

ECONOMIC PERSPECTIVES ON CULTURAL
HERITAGE
Economic Perspectives
on Cultural Heritage
Edited by
Michael Hutter
Witten-Herdecke University
Witten
Germany
and
Ilde Rizzo
Professor of Public Finance and Vice-Chancellor
University of Catania
Italy
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Contents
List of Figures vii
List of Tables YIn
Preface
IX
Notes on the Contributors X
Part I Introduction
1 Economic Perspectives on Cultural Heritage:
An Introduction 3
Michael Hutter
Part II The Construction of Heritage: Theoretical Dimensions
2 Seven Questions in the Economics of
Cultural Heritage 13
David Throsby
3 The Evaluation of Cultural Heritage:
Some Critical Issues 31
Bruno S. Frey
4 Optimizing the Use of Cultural Heritage 50
Christian Koboldt
5 The Value of Cultural Heritage 74
Arjo Klamer
m
Part Heritage Regulation: Regimes, Cases and Effects
6 The Political Economy of Rehabilitation:
The Case of the Benedettini Monastery 91
Giacomo Pignataro and Ilde Rizzo
7 Cultural Heritage and Preservation Policies:
Notes on the History of the Italian Case 107
Guido Guerzoni
v
vi Contents
8 The Development of British Policy on Built Heritage
Preservation l33
Stephen Creigh-Tyte
9 Features and Recent Developments of
Cultural Heritage Policy in Japan 155
Yoshimasa Kurabayashi
10 Tax Policies and Cultural Heritage 170
Dick Netzer
Part IV Heritage Policy: Experiments and Proposals
11 Privatization Policies in Venice 185
Gianfranco Mossetto
12 Conserving Historic Monuments in France:
A Critique of Official Policies 196
Franfoise Benhamou
l3 Towards a European Market for
Arts and Culture Goods: Some Proposals 211
Francesco Forte
14 Towards a Workable Heritage Policy 225
Alan Peacock
List of Conference Participants 236
Index 237
List of Figures
2.1 Marginal private benefits and marginal cost 22
7.1 Map: Italian states (1815-60) and years in which the
first preservation law was promulgated 111
12.1 Listed monuments in France (1840-1994) 201
12.2 Public spending by the French Ministry of Culture,
1971-91 203
vii
List of Tables
5.1 Distribution of (known) Rembrandt paintings over
different countries 84
6.1 Cultural events, 1981-94 93
6.2 Contracts and costs for work on the Benedettini
Monastery 100
7.1 British imports of paintings from Italian states, 1820-70 119
7.2 British imports of books printed before 1801 from
Italian states, 1820-70 120
8.1 The built heritage in England 134
8.2 RCHME expenditure in the 1990s 138
8.3 English Heritage: income and expenditure 139
8.4 Listing categories in England, 1994 144
8.5 Departmental expenditure on the built heritage in the
1990s 146
9.1 ACA budgets, 1984--93 157
9.2 The functional classification of ACA budgets, 1992
and 1993 157
9.3 ACA expenses for the preservation of cultural heritage,
1972-95 158
9.4 Expenditure on culture and art in the budgets of local
governments, 1981-87 158
9.5 Distribution of works of art and craftworks as national
treasures and cultural properties 162
11.1 Case studies: the Venetian museums 192
11.2 The side-products case 193
12.1 Types of intervention for the upkeep and restoration of
historical monuments 199
12.2 Financial needs for five years for listed monuments,
houses or chateaux 202
12.3 Distribution of the ownership of French listed
monuments, 1986 and 1990 208
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Preface
The chapters in this book were, with one exception, first presented at a
conference held in Catania, Sicily, from 16 to 19 November 1995. The
conference was made possible by the University of Catania, and took
place under the auspices of the Association for Cultural Economics
International.
We would like to thank particularly Sir Alan Peacock who took a
full share of the editorial workload. Most of the technical preparation
was done by Andreas Brill at the Institute for Economy and Culture
at Witten Herdecke University. Language-editing and indexing were
done by Margaret Christie, Edinburgh.
We acknowledge the Italian Research Council for its financial sup
port (contribution no. 92.02352.CT15 and 95.00628.CT15). We would
also like to thank the Fritz Thyssen Foundation for the financial
support of the conference as well as the publication of this volume.
MICHAEL HUTTER
ILDE RIZZO
IX
Notes on Contributors
Fran~oise Benhamou teaches Economics at Paris X University. She
works at the Laboratoire d'Economie Sociale at Paris I University.
She is the author of Economie et Culture (1996) and three reports
about cultural policies in France. Her research interests include the
history of economic thought. She is currently working in the field of
cultural industries and cultural organizations.
Stephen Creigh-Tyte is Chief Economist at the Department of
National Heritage in London and Visiting Professor in the Depart
ment of Economics at the University of Durham. He previously held a
variety of posts in Britain and Australia in both civil service and
academic spheres. He is the author of numerous research papers,
journal articles and publications on microeconomic issues.
Francesco Forte is Professor of Public Finance at the University of
Rome, La Sapienza, School of Economics and Commerce. He is a
former Minister of the Italian government: Finance (1983), European
Affairs (1983-85) and Foreign Aid (1986--87) and former Senator
Chairman of the Finance and Treasury Committee of the Senate. He
received his doctoral degree from the University of Pavia in 1951. He
has taught at several Italian universities and has been a visiting
professor at the Brookings Institute, the University of Virginia and
the University of California, LA. He is author of more than a hundred
articles, written mainly in English and Italian, and of several books.
Together with Alan Pea(1ock he is editor of Political Economy of
Taxation (1981) and Public Expenditure and Government Growth
(1985). He recently contributed to Current Issues in Public Choice
(edited by J. C. Pardo and F. Schneider, 1996) with an essay on
'Development of Game Theory and Public Choice: An Interaction'.
Bruno S. Frey is Professor of Economics at the University of Zurich
and also teaches as Associate Professor at the University of Basel and
at the Institute des Sciences Politiques in Paris. He was Visiting
Research Professor of Business Economics at Chicago University and
Visiting Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford University and at the
Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin. He is the author of Umweltokonomie
(3rd edition, 1992), Modern Political Economy (1978), Democratic
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