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100	1		_aCowen, Tyler. _979531
245	1	0	_aCreative Destruction : _bHow Globalization Is Changing the World's Cultures.
264		1	_aPrinceton : _bPrinceton University Press, _c2002.
264		4	_c©2002.
300			_a1 online resource (192 pages)
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
505	0		_aIntro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Trade between Cultures -- 2 Global Culture Ascendant: The Roles of Wealth and Technology -- 3 Ethos and the Tragedy of Cultural Loss -- 4 Why Hollywood Rules the World, and Whether We Should Care -- 5 Dumbing Down and the Least Common Denominator -- 6 Should National Culture Matter? -- References -- Index
520			_aA Frenchman rents a Hollywood movie. A Thai schoolgirl mimics Madonna. Saddam Hussein chooses Frank Sinatra's "My Way" as the theme song for his fifty-fourth birthday. It is a commonplace that globalization is subverting local culture. But is it helping as much as it hurts? In this strikingly original treatment of a fiercely debated issue, Tyler Cowen makes a bold new case for a more sympathetic understanding of cross-cultural trade. Creative Destruction brings not stale suppositions but an economist's eye to bear on an age-old question: Are market exchange and aesthetic quality friends or foes? On the whole, argues Cowen in clear and vigorous prose, they are friends. Cultural "destruction" breeds not artistic demise but diversity.Through an array of colorful examples from the areas where globalization's critics have been most vocal, Cowen asks what happens when cultures collide through trade, whether technology destroys native arts, why (and whether) Hollywood movies rule the world, whether "globalized" culture is dumbing down societies everywhere, and if national cultures matter at all. Scrutinizing such manifestations of "indigenous" culture as the steel band ensembles of Trinidad, Indian handweaving, and music from Zaire, Cowen finds that they are more vibrant than ever--thanks largely to cross-cultural trade.For all the pressures that market forces exert on individual cultures, diversity typically increases within society, even when cultures become more like each other. Trade enhances the range of individual choice, yielding forms of expression within cultures that flower as never before. While some see cultural decline as a half-empty glass, Cowen sees it as a glass half-full with the stirrings of cultural brilliance. Not all readers will agree, but all will want a say in the debate this exceptional book will stir.
533			_aElectronic reproduction
590			_aElectronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2020. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
650		0	_aCulture.. _9188743
650		0	_aGlobalization.. _9188744
650		0	_aCultural relations.. _9188745
650		0	_aInternational relations and culture. _9188746
655		4	_aElectronic books. _9188747
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _aCowen, Tyler _tCreative Destruction : How Globalization Is Changing the World's Cultures _dPrinceton : Princeton University Press,c2002 _z9780691090160
797	2		_aProQuest (Firm)
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