The Resource Creative destruction, Tyler Cowen
Creative destruction, Tyler Cowen
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- Summary
- A Frenchman rents a Hollywood movie. A Thai schoolgirl mimics Madonna. Saddam Hussein chooses Frank Sinatra's "My Way" as the theme song for his fifty-fourth birthday. It is a commonplace that globalization is subverting local culture. But is it helping as much as it hurts? In this strikingly original treatment of a fiercely debated issue, Tyler Cowen makes a bold new case for a more sympathetic understanding of cross-cultural trade. Creative destruction brings not stale suppositions but an economist's eye to bear on an age-old question: Are market exchange and aesthetic quality friends or foes? On the whole, argues Cowen in clear and vigorous prose, they are friends. Cultural "destruction" breeds not artistic demise but diversity. 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
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource (vii, 179 pages)
- Note
- "How globalization is changing the world's cultures."
- Contents
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- Trade between cultures
- Global culture ascendant: the roles of wealth and technology
- Ethos and the tragedy of cultural loss
- Why Hollywood rules the world, and whether we should care
- Dumbing down and the least common denominator
- Should national culture matter?
- Isbn
- 9781400825189
- Label
- Creative destruction
- Title
- Creative destruction
- Statement of responsibility
- Tyler Cowen
- Subject
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- Globalization
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture
- International relations and culture
- POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy | Cultural Policy
- Mondialisation
- Electronic books
- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economics | Theory
- Culture
- Cultural relations
- Globalization
- Culture
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology | Cultural
- International relations and culture
- Relations culturelles
- Relations internationales et culture
- Cultural relations
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- A Frenchman rents a Hollywood movie. A Thai schoolgirl mimics Madonna. Saddam Hussein chooses Frank Sinatra's "My Way" as the theme song for his fifty-fourth birthday. It is a commonplace that globalization is subverting local culture. But is it helping as much as it hurts? In this strikingly original treatment of a fiercely debated issue, Tyler Cowen makes a bold new case for a more sympathetic understanding of cross-cultural trade. Creative destruction brings not stale suppositions but an economist's eye to bear on an age-old question: Are market exchange and aesthetic quality friends or foes? On the whole, argues Cowen in clear and vigorous prose, they are friends. Cultural "destruction" breeds not artistic demise but diversity. 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
- Cataloging source
- N$T
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Cowen, Tyler
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
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- dictionaries
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Culture
- Globalization
- Cultural relations
- International relations and culture
- Culture
- Mondialisation
- Relations culturelles
- Relations internationales et culture
- SOCIAL SCIENCE
- POLITICAL SCIENCE
- SOCIAL SCIENCE
- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
- Cultural relations
- Culture
- Globalization
- International relations and culture
- Label
- Creative destruction, Tyler Cowen
- Note
- "How globalization is changing the world's cultures."
- Antecedent source
- unknown
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-171) and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Trade between cultures -- Global culture ascendant: the roles of wealth and technology -- Ethos and the tragedy of cultural loss -- Why Hollywood rules the world, and whether we should care -- Dumbing down and the least common denominator -- Should national culture matter?
- Control code
- ocn362452556
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (vii, 179 pages)
- File format
- unknown
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9781400825189
- Level of compression
- unknown
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- c
- Note
- JSTOR
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
- 22573/cttt021
- Quality assurance targets
- not applicable
- Reformatting quality
- unknown
- Sound
- unknown sound
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)362452556
- Label
- Creative destruction, Tyler Cowen
- Note
- "How globalization is changing the world's cultures."
- Antecedent source
- unknown
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-171) and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Trade between cultures -- Global culture ascendant: the roles of wealth and technology -- Ethos and the tragedy of cultural loss -- Why Hollywood rules the world, and whether we should care -- Dumbing down and the least common denominator -- Should national culture matter?
- Control code
- ocn362452556
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (vii, 179 pages)
- File format
- unknown
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9781400825189
- Level of compression
- unknown
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- c
- Note
- JSTOR
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
- 22573/cttt021
- Quality assurance targets
- not applicable
- Reformatting quality
- unknown
- Sound
- unknown sound
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)362452556
Subject
- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economics | Theory
- Cultural relations
- Cultural relations
- Culture
- Culture
- Electronic books
- Globalization
- Globalization
- International relations and culture
- International relations and culture
- Mondialisation
- POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy | Cultural Policy
- Relations culturelles
- Relations internationales et culture
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology | Cultural
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture
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