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.
Does it matter if the subsidized arts are mostly attended by the well-off?
I have a new paper out, “The pursuit of equality through public funding for the arts”, in Innovating Institutions and Inequities in the Arts, edited...
On the Florida Arts Funding Cuts: Beyond the Fringe
Last week Florida governor Ron DeSantis vetoed $32 million in arts funding, which in that state is managed and allocated by the Division of...
Arts presenters need to show some spine
In class I’ve told students I don’t like the phrase “cancel culture” since it is never quite clear what the speaker means by it....
Why Public Funding for the Arts: A Personal View
I wrote a book looking at how different ways of moral and political theorizing drew different conclusions regarding whether the state should, or should not, subsidize...
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...