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Art is not such a recent subject of economic inquiry as the usual treatment of this matter by economists might suggest. It is of course well-known to historians of economic thought, as well as to cultural economists, that Adam Smith devoted more than a few significant pages of his “Inquiry” (mainly in the first and fifth Books) to the arts and their consequences on the quality of labor and on social systems. Quotations from Ricardo, Marshall and other outstanding masters of this discipline are also a frequent introductory reference to the main collections of papers in this field over the last fifteen years.
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The first part of this chapter was published in Mossetto (1992c)
Blaug (1976) n. 13.
Smith (1789) p. 758.
Desné (1976) p. 73.
Diderot published in 1759, “Salon de 1759, in 1760, “Sur l’ art de peindre”, in 1765. “Essais sur la peinture, in 1776, “Pensées détachées sur la peinture”, all collected in Neri G. (ed) (1957), Diderot: Scritti di estetica, Milano, Feltrinelli.
Hellbrun (1984) p. 37.
Déleuze (1976) p. 42–43.
Ibidem, p.48.
Ibidem, loc. cit.
See, for example, Hutcheson (1747), p.53.
Anonymous (1738).
Smith (1776), p. 173.
Ibidem, p. 326.
Ibidem, p. 105, where Smith lists these reasons in addition to the risk of being unsuccessful and the long training time of these professions.
See, Denis (1968), p.230; Hollander (1973), p. 152–153; Pietranera (1963), pp.86–118.
Hollander (1973), p. 156.
Pietranera (1963), p. 95; Denis (1968), p. 230.
Smith (1776) p. 326 and p. 105.
Ibidem, pp.341–343.
Ibidem, p. 342.
Ibidem, p.763–764.
Ibidem, p. 764.
Ibidem, p.768.
Ricardo (1817) p. 8.
Ibidem, loc. cit.
Ibidem, p. 212.
Ibidem, p. 207.
Ibidem, p. 206.
Blaug (1978), p. 226.
Ibidem, loc. cit., quoting Mill (1848), book V, chapter II, section 8.
Compte A., (1839), Cours de philosophie positive, Paris, pp. 270–272.
Mill (1848), p.500.
Blaug (1978) loc. cit.
Walras (1874) p. 141.
Ibidem, p. 142.
Ibidem, loc. cit.
Robbins (1935), pp. 12–19.
Blaug (1978), pp. 316, Denis (1968) p. 169–172, and Cournot (1872), p. 224.
See Kant (1790), Introduction.
Blaug (1978), p. 316, where Kant’ s influence on Menger and Walras is rejected, but Jevon’ s interest in philosophical approaches to reality is stressed.
See the discussion on this derivation in Pareyson (1984), p.10–12.
Robbins (1935), p.90.
Denis (1976), p.171.
Cournot (1872), p.536–537.
Robbins (1935), pp.90–96.
Ibidem, pp.96–100.
Pareto (1896–97), book II, chap. II, pp.178–179.
Ibidem, book I, chap. I, p. 22.
Ibidem, book II, chap., p.15–16.
Ibidem, book I, chap. I, p. 10.
Ibidem, loc. cit. p.14.
Ibidem, book II, chap. I, p.54.
Ibidem, loc. cit. p. 55.
Ibidem, loc. cit., p. 54.
Marshall (1920), p.16–17.
Mill (1863), p. 196.
Marshall (1920), loc. cit.
Ibidem, p. 94.
Ibidem, loc. cit.
See Mossetto (1992 a) and chapter four of this book.
Marshall (1920), p. 109–110.
Ibidem, p. 108.
alarm, p. 137.
Ibidgm, p. 215–216.
Ibidgm, p. 137.
pidgin, p.88–89.
(66) bid= p.213.
Ibidem, loc. cit.
Ibidgui,p.109–110.
Ibislua, p. 215–216.
Ibidgm, loc. cit.
Ibidgm, p. 89.
See Blaug (1978) pp. 372–374.
See Veblen (1964) and Mc Closkey (1981) and (1985), Dyer (1986), (1988).
See Pierce (1931–58).
Blaug (1978) p. 373.
Which is actually the case of demand functions when prices affect tastes in the arts. (See Mossetto (1992 a)).
See Boulding (1978), Troub (1980).
Boulding (1978) p. 132.
See Baumol and Bowen (1956), Baumol (1966) and (1967), Peacock (1968)and (1969), Netzer (1978), Throsby and Whiters (1979).
Hellbrun (1984).
Robbins (1963).
Galbraith (1973).
See Austen — Smith (1980).
Troub (1980), p.10.
Shanahan (1978), p.13.
Throsby (1990), p.68.
Shanahan (1978), p.15–16.
Ibidem.
Throsby (1990), p.66.
Gramm (1978), p. 181.
See Austen — Smith (1980) which is the best and most exhaustive contribution on the discussion from the standard point of view of welfarism.
See Abbin (1980), Austen — Smith (1980), to the most recent Fullerton (1991).
For example the most recent above-mentioned Throsby (1990).
See Peacock (1991).
In Sen’ s sense, see Sen (1982).
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Mossetto, G. (1993). Exploring the Economists’ Concern with the Arts. In: Aesthetics and Economics. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8236-0_3
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