Creative Destruction – How Globalization Is Changing the World`s Cultures
Autor Tyler Cowenen Limba Engleză Paperback – 7 apr 2004
Through an array of colorful examples from the areas where globalization's critics have been most vocal, Cowen asks what happens when cultures collide through trade, whether technology destroys native arts, why (and whether) Hollywood movies rule the world, whether "globalized" culture is dumbing down societies everywhere, and if national cultures matter at all. Scrutinizing such manifestations of "indigenous" culture as the steel band ensembles of Trinidad, Indian handweaving, and music from Zaire, Cowen finds that they are more vibrant than ever--thanks largely to cross-cultural trade. For all the pressures that market forces exert on individual cultures, diversity typically increases within society, even when cultures become more like each other. Trade enhances the range of individual choice, yielding forms of expression within cultures that flower as never before. While some see cultural decline as a half-empty glass, Cowen sees it as a glass half-full with the stirrings of cultural brilliance. Not all readers will agree, but all will want a say in the debate this exceptional book will stir.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780691117836
ISBN-10: 0691117837
Pagini: 192
Dimensiuni: 162 x 233 x 12 mm
Greutate: 0.31 kg
Ediția:Revised
Editura: Princeton University Press
Locul publicării:Princeton, United States
ISBN-10: 0691117837
Pagini: 192
Dimensiuni: 162 x 233 x 12 mm
Greutate: 0.31 kg
Ediția:Revised
Editura: Princeton University Press
Locul publicării:Princeton, United States
Notă biografică
Tyler Cowen is Holbert C. Harris Professor of Economics at George Mason University, where he is General Director of the Mercatus Center and the James M. Buchanan Center for Political Economy. His books include What Price Fame?, In Praise of Commercial Culture, and Risk and Business Cycles.
Descriere
Presents an economist's eye to bear on an age-old question: Are market exchange and aesthetic quality friends or foes? This book asks what happens when cultures collide through trade, whether technology destroys native arts, why (and whether) Hollywood movies rule the world, and whether 'globalized' culture is dumbing down societies everywhere.