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Michael Rushton

Michael Rushton
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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.

On the high price of West End tickets

The Guardian has a new editorial up about how the price of a theatre ticket in London is too darn high. I imagine it would be...

Today in dynamic pricing

I have a chapter on dynamic pricing in my old book. In a nutshell: dynamic pricing is where the seller adjusts the current price...

Museums are not like highways

In a New York Times op-ed, Laura Raicovich and Laura Hanna call for a generous increase in the way the government, in particular the...

Economic impact / Job creation arguments for public policy are terrible, episode 647.

Reasonable people can disagree on the amount of military support the US ought to give to Ukraine. But no reasonable person can think that...

On elites, and public subsidies for the high arts

We had a lively and sometimes contentious discussion earlier today – it will appear on YouTube at some point, I will post it then. In...
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