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Economists learned long ago from Lionel Robbins’The Nature and Significance of Economic Science(1932) that the setting of policy objectives does not lie in the domain of economics; economists have no more right than other citizens to say what policy objectives should be. Where economists come into their own is in analysing the means to achieve any given set of policy objectives, that is to evaluate possible policies. The economist’s expertise in relation to means rather than ends is just as valid for the arts as for any other area of public policy.
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Towse, R. (1994). Achieving Public Policy Objectives in the Arts and Heritage. In: Peacock, A., Rizzo, I. (eds) Cultural Economics And Cultural Policies. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-1140-9_11
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