It’s official: Rocco Landesman will be the next Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts. He was confirmed by voice vote by the Senate yesterday along with Jim Leach for the National Endowment for the Humanities and a host of other public officials. Sitting down for an interview with the Times‘s Robin Pogrebin, LandesmanRead More
Archives for August 2009
Fox News gets facts, math wrong in report about NEA grants
Over the past week, Fox News has pushed a storyline on the recent National Endowment for the Arts “stimulus” grants that has an eerily familiar tone: The National Endowment for the Arts may be spending some of the money it received from the Recovery and Reinvestment Act to fund nude simulated-sex dances, Saturday night “pervert”Read More
Around the horn: hello Providence edition
I’m writing from sunny Providence, RI, where I’ll be based for the rest of the summer while I work on some projects and continue the search for a permanent landing spot. In other housekeeping news, Createquity is getting ready to move permanently to createquity.com, with a snazzy new design and blogging platform (WordPress). We’re workingRead More
Value generators
Following up on my economics and value posts from last month (here and here), I’ve been trying to do a little research on how economists presently think about the relationship between value and economic growth. It’s a difficult proposition, frankly, because the concepts involved are so slippery. Most of the normal measures of value generationRead More