This website uses cookies.

By clicking the "Accept" button or continuing to browse our site, you agree to first-party and session-only cookies being stored on your device to enhance site navigation and analyze site performance and traffic. For more information on our use of cookies, please see our Privacy Policy.

  1. Home
  2. Journals
  3. Journal of Economic Perspectives
  4. Spring 2003
  5. Awards, Success and Aesthetic Quality in the Arts

Journal of Economic Perspectives

ISSN 0895-3309 (Print) | ISSN 1944-7965 (Online)

Awards, Success and Aesthetic Quality in the Arts

  • Victor Ginsburgh
Journal of Economic Perspectives
vol. 17, no. 2, Spring 2003
(pp. 99–111)
Download Full Text PDF
(Complimentary)

Abstract

The role of experts is dramatically increasing in our societies, where sorting information about quality is becoming more and more difficult. This paper looks at expertise in the arts (movies, novels and musical interpretation) and shows that expert opinion given shortly after the work has been produced (Oscars, prizes, rankings in musical competitions) may influence success, though it does not always recognize talent and does often not survive the "test of time," considered by many art philosophers, since Hume, as one of the possible measures of fundamental aesthetic quality.

Citation

Ginsburgh, Victor. 2003. "Awards, Success and Aesthetic Quality in the Arts ." Journal of Economic Perspectives, 17 (2): 99–111. DOI: 10.1257/089533003765888458

JEL Classification

  • L82 Entertainment; Media
  • Z11 Cultural Economics: Economics of the Arts and Literature
There are no comments for this article.
Login to Comment