Michael Rushton
Michael Rushton teaches in the Arts Administration programs at Indiana University in Bloomington. An economist by training, he has published widely on such topics as public funding of the arts, copyright, nonprofit organizations and tax policy, and served as Co-Editor of the Journal of Cultural Economics.
UNESCO and the United States
O wad some Pow’r the giftie gie us…
In the Washington Post, Charles Djou, who was a Biden administration official and briefly held an Hawaiian congressional...
What is Free Speech? A Review
“Freedom of speech” is never an absolute. Even in a country where people have a great amount of freedom of speech, such as the...
The search for the very nice arts philanthropist
Last month, the Scottish government came up with a one-time grant of £300,000 to cover the Edinburgh International Book Festival, after pressure from environmental protestors caused...
Should we subsidize arts consumers, art producers, or neither?
My friends Joanna Woronkowicz and Doug Noonan have started a new venture, Arts Analytics, where they hope to bring more extensive, and shared, use...
On the frontiers of AI
Prelude, from The Onion:
Prague's Franz Kafka International Named World's Most Alienating Airport
Now then. A few days ago, my son googled “Franz Kafka Airport” and...
