Puu Arts, Sciences, and Economics

A Historical Safari
1. Auflage 2006
ISBN: 978-3-540-34424-7
Verlag: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 194 Seiten

This book deals with the economic aspects of changing attitudes in arts and sciences. The effects of the public good character of culture, along with the very long production period and lifetime for its products, are emphasized, since both contribute to the failure of normal market solutions. Embodiment of ideas, and the consequences of modern reproduction technology for protection of property rights are closely examined.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Puu, Tönu

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Preface;5
2;Contents;8
3;1 Culture and Civilization;12
3.1;1.1 Current Threats;12
3.2;1.2 Reversed Perspective;13
3.3;1.3 Civilization: Frazer;15
3.4;1.4 Embodiment;16
3.5;1.5 Specialization: Castiglione;16
3.6;1.6 Development;17
3.7;1.7 Circularity;18
3.8;1.8 Layout of the Book;18
3.9;2.1 The Concept;19
4;2 Public Goods;19
4.1;2.2 Embodied Ideas;20
4.2;2.3 Vivaldi’s Oevre;20
4.3;2.4 Attitudes to Culture;23
4.4;2.5 Protection of Originals;27
4.5;2.6 The Marais;28
4.6;2.7 Paris and Vienna;29
4.7;2.8 Piazza San Pietro;30
4.8;2.9 Performing Arts;31
4.9;2.10 Property Rights;32
4.10;2.11 Trade Secrets;33
4.11;2.12 The Stock of Knowledge;35
4.12;2.13 Knowledge and Capital;36
4.13;2.14 Embodied Knowledge;37
4.14;2.15 Storage;38
4.15;2.16 Accessibility;39
4.16;2.17 Compactification;40
4.17;2.18 University Cultures;41
4.18;3.1 Introduction;43
5;3 Patronage;43
5.1;3.2 Diversity of Institutions;44
5.2;3.3 Uncertainty in Production;45
5.3;3.4 Risk and Insurance;46
5.4;3.5 Patronage in Culture;49
5.5;4.1 Background;55
5.6;4.2 Dissipation of Culture;55
6;4 Changing Attitudes;55
6.1;4.3 Leisure;58
6.2;4.4 Addiction;60
6.3;4.5 Dilettantism;62
6.4;4.6 Schliemann, Fermat, and Galois;63
6.5;4.7 Specialization;67
6.6;4.8 The Ultimate Purpose;67
6.7;4.9 Florence and Vienna;70
6.8;4.10 The Fin-de-Siècle;76
6.9;4.11 Nonlinearities;78
6.10;4.12 Superstars;79
6.11;4.13 Removing Constraints;80
6.12;4.14 Historical Monuments;81
6.13;4.15 Standardization;82
6.14;4.16 Concentration;83
6.15;5.1 Logical Empiricism;86
7;5 Evolution in Science;86
7.1;5.2 Newton, Kepler, and Galileo;87
7.2;5.3 Refutation;87
7.3;5.4 Approximate Truth;89
7.4;5.5 Ad Hoc Explanation;90
7.5;5.6 Normal Science;90
7.6;5.7 Supertheories;92
7.7;5.8 Schumpeter;92
7.8;5.9 Reductionism;93
7.9;5.10 Generalization;94
7.10;5.11 Hilbert’s Programme;95
7.11;5.12 Gödel;96
7.12;5.13 Chaos and Predictability;96
7.13;5.14 Laplace;97
7.14;5.15 The Weather Factory;97
7.15;5.16 Social Engineering;98
7.16;5.17 Poincaré;99
7.17;5.18 Linearity;101
7.18;5.19 Lorenz;102
7.19;5.20 Aesthetic Principles;104
7.20;5.21 Maupertuis;104
7.21;5.22 Leibnitz;107
7.22;5.23 Metaphysics;107
7.23;5.24 Aesthetics;108
7.24;5.25 Computers and Visuality;112
7.25;5.26 Ethics;116
7.26;5.27 Pioneers;117
7.27;5.28 Pseudoscience;121
7.28;5.29 Female Scientists;123
7.29;6.1 The Role of Art in the Society;126
8;6 Perfection in Art;126
8.1;6.2 A Unique Opportunity;127
8.2;6.3 The Baroque Transition;128
8.3;6.4 To Romanticism;129
8.4;6.5 Musical Instruments;131
8.5;6.6 A Fast Transition;134
8.6;6.7 Discovery in Art;135
8.7;6.8 Rediscovery in Music;142
8.8;6.9 Tuning and Temperament;148
8.9;6.10 The Modern Harpsichord;150
8.10;6.11 Back to Originals;154
8.11;6.12 The Early Music Revival;157
8.12;6.13 Meaning and Beauty;159
8.13;6.14 Harnoncourt;159
8.14;6.15 Rhetoric in Music;161
8.15;6.16 Art and Science;161
8.16;6.17 Art as Sedative;164
8.17;7.1 Introduction;166
9;7 Economic Principles;166
9.1;7.2 Böhm-Bawerk and Smith;167
9.2;7.3 Increasing Complexity;168
9.3;7.4 The Development Tree;169
9.4;7.5 Continuous Evolution;172
9.5;7.6 Diversification;175
9.6;7.7 Property Space;176
9.7;7.8 Paretian Ordering;177
9.8;7.9 Prices and Progress;178
9.9;7.10 Branching Points;179
9.10;7.11 Music Automata;182
9.11;7.12 Bifurcations;183
9.12;7.13 Synergetics;185
9.13;7.14 Viable Alternatives;186
9.14;7.15 A "Genesis" of Musical Instruments;187
9.15;7.16 Summary;191
9.16;Classics (before 1800);193
10;References;193
10.1;Modern (1800 to our days);194
10.2;Chapter 2;197
11;Figures;197
11.1;Chapter 3;198
11.2;Chapter 4;198
11.3;Chapter 5;199
11.4;Chapter 6;199
11.5;Chapter 7;201