Advanced topics in economics of cultural heritage and creativity
Doctoral study programme Cultural Heritage Studies
Objectives and competences
• To provide the ability to critically evaluate the literature on the economic od culture, to gain appreciation of the nature of economic debate, to understand empirical challenges that arise correlating different variables inherent in economic debate;
• To update students, through open discussion and presentation among peers, with the contemporary research trends in the field of economics of culture;
• To train students to critically analyse, understand and use data resources, empirical techniques and undertaking of research project;
• To consolidate the holistic approach to the research
Prerequisites
Ni predpisanih predpogojev.
Content
• Seminars, open discussions in different fields of knowledge involved in economics of art, focusing on contemporary research perspectives and trends in the field of economics of cultural heritage.
• In particular the course will offer advanced lectures on the creative place making and industries, cultural policy, performing arts, heritage, artists' labour markets, copyright, broadcasting, film and music, festivals, museums, cities of culture, creative clusters;
Intended learning outcomes
• Student’s capacity to pursue independent bibliographical research within broad and complex range of topics inherent to heritage studies
• Publication and communication potential, learning interactive –scientific discussion
• Successful written and public presentation of research proposal focusing on critical presentation of bibliographical background related to the contemporary research trends
Readings
Selected literature may differ each year and will be given accordingly to the selected thematic field.
Assessment
• Active participation in classroom • Written report
Lecturer's references
Xavier Greffe is a professor of economics at the University Paris I, where he chairs the economics of arts postgraduate program. He is also an Associate Professor at the National Graduate Institute for Public Policies in Tokyo and an Adjunct Professor at the Auckland Institute of Technology (New Zealand). He chairs the National French Committee on artistic employment in France. Previously, he has been a professor at various French and foreign universities and served as the general director for training and apprenticeship in the Ministry of Labour in Paris (1990-1994).
He has published articles and books in the field of the economics of arts and media, including the following:
• Greffe, X. (1988), L’économie du patrimoine: l’offre et le demande de monuments, Paris: Economica.
• Greffe, X. (2004), La valorisation économique du patrimoine, Paris: La Documentation Française.
• Greffe, X. (2007), Artistes et marchés, Paris: La Documentation Française.
• Greffe, X. (2007), Managing Creative Enterprises, Genève: WIPO-WTO E-version.
• Greffe, X. (2009), Economie Globale, Dalloz.
• Greffe, X. (2009), La politique culturelle en France, La Documentation Française.
• Greffe, X. (2008), Culture Web, Dalloz.
• Greffe, X. (2007), French Cultural Policy, Bookdom, Tokyo.
• Greffe, X. (2004), Arts and Artists from an Economic Perspective, UNESCO, Paris.
• Greffe, X. (2002), Managing our Cultural Heritage, Aryan Books, New Delhi.
• Greffe, X. (2011), “The Economic Impact of The Louvre”, The Journal of Arts Management and Law, N°1, pp. 75-101.
• Greffe, X. (2012), L’artiste-entreprise, Paris: Dalloz.
• Greffe, X. (2013), Artistes et politiques, Paris: Economica.
• Greffe, X. (2014), Les mises en scène du patrimoine culturel, Presses Universitaires du Québec.
• Greffe, X. (2015), Culture, Creativity and Cities, coeditor with Emiko Kakiuchi, Suiyo-Cha, Tokyo.
• Greffe, X. (2015), The Artist-Enterprise in a Digital Age, Springer.
• Greffe, X. (2017), Arts et argent, Economica.