Creative Destruction: How Globalization Is Changing the World's CulturesA Frenchman rents a Hollywood movie. A Thai schoolgirl mimics Madonna. Saddam Hussein chooses Frank Sinatra's "My Way" as the theme song for his fifty-fourth birthday. It is a commonplace that globalization is subverting local culture. But is it helping as much as it hurts? In this strikingly original treatment of a fiercely debated issue, Tyler Cowen makes a bold new case for a more sympathetic understanding of cross-cultural trade. Creative Destruction brings not stale suppositions but an economist's eye to bear on an age-old question: Are market exchange and aesthetic quality friends or foes? On the whole, argues Cowen in clear and vigorous prose, they are friends. Cultural "destruction" breeds not artistic demise but diversity. |
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Contents
Trade between Cultures | 1 |
Global Culture Ascendant The Roles of Wealth and Technology | 19 |
Ethos and the Tragedy of Cultural Loss | 47 |
Why Hollywood Rules the World and Whether We Should Care | 73 |
Dumbing Down and the Least Common Denominator | 102 |
Other editions - View all
Creative Destruction: How Globalization Is Changing the World's Cultures Tyler Cowen Limited preview - 2004 |
Creative Destruction: How Globalization Is Changing the World's Cultures Tyler Cowen Limited preview - 2009 |
Creative Destruction: How Globalization is Changing the World's Cultures Tyler Cowen No preview available - 2002 |