Economy of culture

1.       What does term culture mean?

·         Discuss: What is your personal explanation of term “culture”?

·         Try to define culture by yourself

·         Find definition of term “culture” by some organization/author etc.

2.       What do we mean when we are talking about international cultural differences?

·         Discuss: What are the roots of these differences?

3.       What is a cultural good and cultural service in area of culture production?

·         Find at least three examples of cultural goods and services

·         Discuss: How could we sort cultural goods and service

4.       Are cultural organizations financially self-sufficient?

·         Find examples of areas which are in general financially self-sufficient and which
dependent on support.

5.       According which economic theory should be culture supported by state?

·         Is culture public good or not?

6.       What does “Baumol's cost disease” mean?

·         Does this theory have any weakness?

·         Discuss: How could we measure productivity in culture?

·         Discuss: How could we increase production in culture?

7.       Find at least three international organizations which focused on culture.

·         Find mission of these organization.

8.       What is the EU's role in the culture area?

·         Does EU have united strategy in field of culture support?

9.       Find three examples of European union’s activities, which are connecting with culture.

·         Which cities are in 2018 European capitals of Culture and what does these activities
mean?

10.   Discuss: How often in week/month/year do you visit culture institution? (Theatre, cinema,
museum, gallery and so on)

·         Which product of culture do you use the most?