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Temple University and Fordham University. This paper was suggested to me in part by a paper by Henry Hansman presented at the Montreal meetings of ACE, May, 1980. I am indebted to the editor and to two anonymous referees for substantive and stylistic suggestions which have helped to make the paper sounder and more scholarly. All shortcomings of the paper are attributable to the author.

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McCain, R.A. Optimal subsidies to the arts in a shortsighted world. J Cult Econ 6, 15–32 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00162291

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