The economic vision of culture: elements of a genealogy

The use of an economic vocabulary and categories with regard to culture is commonplace nowadays. This trivialisation invites a critical look, which is what this article proposes in setting out some steps for a genealogy of this view and of its dissemination, starting with some practical details about the development of economics, the direction of government cultural policies, and the transformations that have occurred in the functioning of the cultural domain.
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