In Praise of Commercial Culture
by Tyler Cowen
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This book seeks to redress the current intellectual and popular balance and to encourage a more favourable attitude towards the commercialization of culture that we associate with modernity.Tags
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Cowen is one of my favorite thinkers and bloggers. I did not care for his pop books, however, and so I nearly missed this gem from his pre-blogging days. It's an academic work, but it's accessible to anyone interested in culture who took a few econ classes. It's a rare combination: fine analysis combined with wide-ranging and deep knowledge.
The book is basically an argumentation against what it defines as "cultural pessimism". Unfortunately it goes no further than common sense.
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Tyler Cowen is Professor of Economics at George Mason University, where he directs the Mercatus Center and the James M. Buchanan Center for Political Economy
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