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Leverage Cultural Resources and Creativity

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Creating Economic Growth

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Abstract

One rarely goes to a museum to find a model of how to stimulate local economic development. That’s particularly true in Florence, Italy where you instead go to see treasures by Botticelli, da Vinci, Raphael, Caravaggio, and Titian. But Florence has a noted exception if you’re an economist: the Palazzo Strozzi. Since the end of World War II, the Palazzo Strozzi has been known as Florence’s largest space for temporary exhibitions. In the last decade, it has also become known for being an example of how to use art to stimulate economic development.

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Magnani, M. (2014). Leverage Cultural Resources and Creativity. In: Creating Economic Growth. Palgrave Advances in Regional and Urban Economics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137427052_5

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