CULTURAL ECONOMICS AND POLICY
Academic Year 2023/2024 - Teacher: Romilda RIZZOExpected Learning Outcomes
The course aims at providing analytical tools to examine and understand the relationship between the economic system main and the various aspects of the cultural sector, with special attention both to public intervention motivations and tools and to the economic features of private cultural markets. Alongside the theoretical analysis, the Italian cultural sector will be examined in a comparative perspective and some case studies will be investigated (Knowledge and understanding).
Students will apply their knowledge critically, also analysing official documents and data and investigating case studies in a comparative perspective (Applying knowledge and understanding).
Analysing different theoretical approaches and using information from various types of multidisciplinary sources, students will improve their evaluation abilities in the analysis of the public and private components of the cultural sector, of its interactions with the local context and of the related policy implications (Making judgments).
The presentation of the theoretical and empirical issues of the interaction between the economic system and the cultural sector and of the policy implications will allow students to acquire adequate knowledge of technical words and terminology; oral and written communication skills will be also stimulated through classroom activities - such as discussions and seminars- and written examinations (Communication skills).
Students learning skills will be stimulated through power point presentations, additional didactic material (official documents, websites, economic newspapers and magazines) and discussions, aimed at verifying the understanding of the topics presented in the lectures. (Learning skills).
Course Structure
Lectures with power point presentation, discussions in class, seminars and analysis of case studies.
Teaching may also be carried out on line, should the conditions require it.
Detailed Course Content
Definition and measurement of cultural sector; Market failure and reasons for public intervention. Tools of public intervention and decision-making process; Demand and supply of cultural goods and activities: the role of private sector; Economic organization of cultural and creative industries; Digital creative economy; Cultural heritage; Museums; Performing arts; Valuation methodologies; Festivals, creative cities and cultural tourism; Cultural policies in a comparative perspective.
Textbook Information
- R. Towse, A Textbook of Cultural Economics, Cambridge University Press, 2019: chapters 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7. 8, 9, 10 and 11. AS ALTERNATIVE to chapters 1, 6, 8, 9 e 10 (only for par. ‘Economics of festival’) students can use G. Candela - A. Scorcu, Economia delle arti, ed. Zanichelli, Bologna, 2004, only chapters 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8 and 9 (boxes ‘L’Architetto’ are optional).
- Symbola, Io sono cultura, Unioncamere, 2023, chapter 2 ("I numeri delle industrie culturali e creative in Italia", pp. 57-131).
- I. Mazza, I. Rizzo, “Scelte collettive e beni culturali”, in Valentino P.A. - G. Mossetto (eds.), Museo contro Museo, Giunti, Firenze, 2001, pp. 41-54.
- C. Guccio, G. B. Pollicchino, S. Levi Sacerdotti, I. Rizzo “Il profilo dei turisti con motivazioni culturali: analisi comparata attraverso GPS e questionari sui visitatori del Lago d’Orta”, in V. Tomaselli, R. D’Agata (eds.), Turismo e territorio: analisi empiriche e approcci metodologici, McGraw Hill, 2012, Milano, pp. 85-98
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Course Planning
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1 | Elementi introduttivi all’economia della cultura | Testo 1. cap. 1 |
2 | Profili economici del settore culturale - attori pubblici, privati e senza fini di lucro | Testo 1. cap. 2 |
3 | Le statistiche culturali - Problemi di misurazione | Testo 1 cap. 2 |
4 | Le industrie culturali e creative. Definizioni e profili quantitativi | Testo 1 cap. 2 |
5 | La dimensione del settore culturale in Italia | Testo 2. cap. 2 |
6 | i mercati dei beni e delle attività culturali | Testo 1 cap. 3 |
7 | Forme di regolazione dei mercati culturali | Testo 1. cap 3 |
8 | Organizzazione economica delle industrie creative | Testo 1. cap 3 |
9 | il mercato dell'arte | Testo 1 cap. 3 |
10 | Economia creativa digitale – Internet e il settore culturale | Testo 1 cap.4 |
11 | Caratteristiche economiche dell'economia creativa digitale | Testo 1 cap. 4 |
12 | Organizzazione economica del commercio digitale di beni creativi | Testo 1 cap. 4 |
13 | Regolazione ed economia creativa digitale | Testo 1 cap. 4 |
14 | Offerta di beni e servizi culturali | Testo 1 cap. 5 |
15 | Produzione e costi di beni e attività culturali | Testo 1 cap. 5 |
16 | Domanda di beni e attività culturali | Testo 1. cap.6 |
17 | Profili quantitativi e qualitativi della partecipazione culturale | Testo 1 cap. 6 |
18 | Elementi di Economia del benessere applicati al settore culturale | Testo 1. cap. 7 |
19 | Fallimenti del mercato; motivazioni dell’intervento pubblico | Testo 1 cap. 7 |
20 | Strumenti dell’intervento pubblico – imposte, spesa, regolamentazione – | Testo 1. cap. 7 |
21 | Analisi costi-benefici; analisi di impatto | Testo 1 cap. 7 |
22 | Il processo decisionale pubblico e le politiche culturali | Testo 3 |
23 | Analisi economica degli spettacoli dal vivo - Domanda | Testo 1. cap. 8 |
24 | Analisi economica degli spettacoli dal vivo - Offerta | Testo 1 cap. 8 |
25 | Analisi economica dei musei | Testo 1 cap. 9 |
26 | Analisi economica del patrimonio culturale | Testo 1. cap.9 |
27 | Turismo culturale | Testo 1, cap. 10 |
28 | Il profilo dei turisti culturali | Testo 4 |
29 | Festival e città creative | Testo 1. cap. 10 |
30 | Valutazione economica delle politiche culturali | Testo 1. cap. 11 |
31 | Valutazione economica delle politiche culturali: casi di studio | Testo 1. cap. 11 |