A Barbarian in the Garden? Cultural Heritage Seen from the Perspective of Economics Cover Image

Barbarzyńca w ogrodzie? Dziedzictwo kulturowe widziane z perspektywy ekonomii
A Barbarian in the Garden? Cultural Heritage Seen from the Perspective of Economics

Author(s): Monika Murzyn-Kupisz
Subject(s): Economy
Published by: Uniwersytet Ekonomiczny w Krakowie we współpracy z Wydawnictwem Naukowym Scholar
Keywords: cultural heritage; cultural economics; public goods; economic values; cultural values

Summary/Abstract: Until recently, research on cultural heritage seemed to be the unquestioned realm of the humanities. However, the development of the heritage market and the need to consider the benefi ts of its preservation and contemporary usage from many diff erent viewpoints – not only artistic and historical, but also taking into account the perspective of creation and implementation of public policies and strategies, and the overall context of socio-economic development – calls for an active engagement of economics in its analysis as a specifi c product in the market. Th e author considers two very important issues with respect to theoretical approaches to cultural heritage seen from the perspective of cultural economics and its specifi c sub-fi eld of heritage economics: the question of heritage values and public goods characteristics of many heritage products.

  • Issue Year: 2010
  • Issue No: 13
  • Page Range: 19-32
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: Polish