Gifts of the Muse: Reframing the Debate about the Benefits of the Arts

By: Kevin F. McCarthy, Elizabeth A. Ondaatje, Laura Zakaras and Arthur C. Brooks

Format:Print

Abstract

This study offers a new framework for understanding how the arts create private and public value, highlights the importance of the arts' intrinsic benefits and indentifies how both instrumental and instrinsic benefits are created.

Keywords

Arts And Society; Arts

Citation

McCarthy, Kevin F., Elizabeth A. Ondaatje, Laura Zakaras, and Arthur C. Brooks. Gifts of the Muse: Reframing the Debate about the Benefits of the Arts. Santa Monica, CA: RAND, 2001.