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  • From public good to public value: arts and culture in a time of crisis

    Author(s)
    Meyrick, Julian
    Barnett, Tully
    Griffith University Author(s)
    Meyrick, Julian J.
    Year published
    2020
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    Abstract
    This paper argues that the crisis sweeping over the Australian cultural sector as a result of COVID-19 presents an existential threat to current (“normal science”) methods of evaluation, and to instrumental, predominantly economic, understandings of value. Outlining ways the concept of value is changing, we respond to Mariana Mazzucato’s call to go “from public goods to public value” in considering the role of government policy in key sectors of society. We note the broader approach to value called for by a range of mainstream economists and provide three recent examples of challenges to existing evaluation methods in the ...
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    This paper argues that the crisis sweeping over the Australian cultural sector as a result of COVID-19 presents an existential threat to current (“normal science”) methods of evaluation, and to instrumental, predominantly economic, understandings of value. Outlining ways the concept of value is changing, we respond to Mariana Mazzucato’s call to go “from public goods to public value” in considering the role of government policy in key sectors of society. We note the broader approach to value called for by a range of mainstream economists and provide three recent examples of challenges to existing evaluation methods in the Australian cultural sector. In conclusion, we touch on the essential features of a re-constructed category of public value and the implications for value research. During COVID-19, the public role of arts and culture has become self-evident. The challenge is to match this realization with a new understanding of their public value.
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    Journal Title
    Cultural Trends
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1080/09548963.2020.1844542
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    This publication has been entered as an advanced online version in Griffith Research Online.
    Subject
    Cultural Studies
    Studies in Creative Arts and Writing
    Language, Communication and Culture
    Arts & Humanities
    Social Sciences
    Humanities, Multidisciplinary
    Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/400642
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