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Currents 096: Jim & Michael Garfield Talk About Everything

The Jim Rutt Show

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The Economic Utility of the Arts

"It grieves me to hear people talk about how they don't understand the economic utility of the arts," he says. "I'm at the beginning of a career in which, you know, my greatest challenge is to remind people that this exploratory work is crucial to the human enterprise" He adds: "There's a reason why our systems are wired to enjoy curiosity ... because it balances fear and risk aversion"

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