Ethics and Cultural Policy in a Global Economy

Sarah Owen-Vandersluis critically examines approaches to cultural policy within the global economy.This study taps into the growing debate on ethical theory and International Political Economy.It challenges the normative positions of nationalists and welfare economists, before developing an alternative communitarian ethics for cultural policy in a global economy.The study concludes with an examination of the practical implications of this ethics in several case studies.

Sarah Owen Vandersluis is Finance Manager, Ford Motor Company.

Acknowledgements

ix

Introduction

1

(14)

Neoclassical economics and IPE

1

(2)

What role for critical theory? Moving beyond neo-Gramscianism

3

(8)

Culture and critical theory

11

(1)

Argument of the book

12

(3)

Contending Views of Culture and the Good Life

15

(23)

Market-based approaches

15

(11)

Community-based approaches

26

(11)

Conclusion

37

(1)

Welfare Economics and the Moral Relevance of Culture

38

(29)

Ethics and economics

39

(1)

The obvious moral claim: individual well-being

39

(9)

The prior moral premise: individual freedom

48

(2)

Hayek on freedom and the market

50

(7)

The free market, liberty, and culture

57

(8)

Conclusion

65

(2)

The Ethics of Culture and Community

67

(14)

National survival

69

(3)

Why not liberalism?

72

(8)

Conclusion

80

(1)

Towards an Ethics for Cultural Policy: Charles Taylor Considered

81

(23)

Taylor's position

82

(4)

Taylor's ethics

86

(4)

Taylor's ethics reconsidered

90

(12)

The value of Taylor's approach

102

(2)

Social Justice in a Multicultural Context

104

(22)

Ontology

104

(3)

Ethics

107

(9)

Political institutions

116

(2)

Critiques

118

(8)

Cultural Industries and Cross-Border Trade: Canadian Periodicals Examined

126

(27)

Periodicals in Canada: an overview

126

(9)

Canada-US trade disputes over periodicals

135

(11)

An ethical approach

146

(7)

Prospects for Post-National Cultural Policy: the Case of the European Union

153

(25)

European Community cultural policy described

153

(13)

European Community cultural policy examined

166

(12)

Conclusion

178

(5)

The relevance of ethics for cultural policy

178

(1)

The ethical inadequacy of economistic and nationalist approaches

179

(1)

Culture and identity-an ethically justifiable approach

180

(1)

Implications for policy

180

(1)

Where to from here?

181

(2)

Notes

183

(24)

Bibliography

207

(23)

Index

230

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