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SOUTHERN ECONOMIC JOURNAL
Volume 67, Issue 2, Pages 232-253Publisher
UNIV NORTH CAROLINA
DOI: 10.2307/1061469
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Artists face choices between the pecuniary benefits of selling to the market and the nonpecuniary benefits of creating to please their own tastes. We examine how changes in wages, lump-sum income, and capital-labor ratios affect the artist's pursuit of self-satisfaction versus market. sales. Using our model of labor supply, we consider the economic forces behind the high/low culture split, why some artistic media offer greater scope for the avant-garde than others, why so many artists dislike the market, and how economic growth and taxation affect the quantity and form of different kinds of art.
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