Susan Oman, "Understanding Well-being Data: Improving Social and Cultural Policy, Practice and Research" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021)
New Books in Economics
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Is the Cultural Sector Good for Well Being?
Is it ethical for the cultural sector to say it's good for well being? Yes. What i would say, iis that there are that the sector isn't necessarily honest when it describes what it's doing. The benefits of any kind of cultural activity can all be elided into one thing called cultural participation. And you could be talking about escaping loneliness or great intellectual fulfilment fromen ging with some extremely sophisticated piece of classical musicthat's inaccessible to the masses.
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