EconomistsTalkArt.org SHARES ITS SUCCESS AND ENTHUSIASM INTO THE NEW YEAR

By Editorial Board

ETA was launched in November 2015 to provide a space for the dissemination of research-based policy analysis and commentary by cultural economists. After a full year of activities, we are happy to have published 21 posts. The enthusiasm is shared by our many followers who visited the blog over 10,000 times.

These are the five most popular blog posts:

	Post name	Nr. of visits
	WHO ARE THE VISITORS OF CULTURAL SITES ACROSS EU COUNTRIES?	891
	WHY ARE THERE SO MANY ART THEFTS	678
	DO LIVE BROADCASTS CANNIBALIZE THEATRE ATTENDANCE?	512
	THE ARTS ALONE OR TOGETHER? TIME USE AS A MEASUREMENT OF THE VALUE OF THE ARTS	500
	THE ARTS CONNECT STUDENTS TO SCHOOL	459

 

 

Most posts touch on the keywords of culture, the arts, music, markets, public, economics and value. Relative frequency of word use in the past 12 months for the top seven terms can be seen in the following graph.

Most of our visitors are from the US, Netherlands, UK, Australia and Spain, as shown in the table below.

Country	Nr. of visits
United States	2641
Netherlands	1232
United Kingdom	954
Australia	615
Spain	614
Slovenia	524
Italy	398
Canada	366
France	307
Belgium	305

In the New Year, we will continue publishing two high quality posts each month and will provide easy accessible summaries of good economic research on the arts and culture.

The coming posts will cover, among others, topics on diversity, education of artists and there will be a special issue on women in March (celebrating International Women’s Day). Stay tuned for more!

From the ETA editors, Karol J. Borowiecki, Cedric Ceulemans, Trilce Navarrete, Andrej Srakar and Marilena Vecco, we wish you lots of reading pleasure in the coming year.

Image source:

Word cloud and frequency of word appearance generated using the text from the first 20 blog posts made with voyant tools.