Participants
- Robert A. Baade, Professor of Economics and Business, Lake Forest College
- David Beeman, Research Assistant, Cultural Policy Center, The University of Chicago
- David Brookshire, Professor of Economics, University of New Mexico
- Randy Cohen, Vice President of Research and Information, Americans for the Arts
- Don Coursey, Ameritech Professor of Public Policy, Irving B. Harris Graduate School of Public Policy Studies, The University of Chicago
- Tyler Cowen, Professor of Economics, George Mason University
- Charles L. Granquist, Director of Pocantico Programs, the Rockefeller Brothers Foundation
- Peal Imada Iboshi, Chief Economist, Research and Economic Analysis Division, State of Hawaii Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism
- D. Carroll Joynes, Executive Director, Cultural Policy Center, The University of Chicago
- Jonathan Katz, Chief Executive Officer, National Assembly of State Arts Agencies
- Jim Kelly, Director, Cultural Development Authority, King County, Washington
- Mary King, Professor of Economics and Department Chair, Portland State University
- Sarah Lee, Research Assistant, Cultural Policy Center, The University of Chicago
- Kevin McCarthy, Senior Social Scientist, RAND Corporation
- Douglas Noonan, Assistant Professor of Public Policy, Georgia Institute of Technology
- Anthony Radich, Executive Director, Western States Arts Federation
- Mandy Rafool, Senior Policy Specialist, National Conference of State Legislatures
- Lawrence Rothfield, Faculty Director, Cultural Policy Center, The University of Chicago
- Michael Rushton, Associate Professor of Public Administration and Urban Studies, Georgia State University
- William A. Schaffer, Emeritus Professor of Economics, Georgia Institute of Technology
- J. Mark Schuster, Professor of Urban Cultural Policy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Bruce Seaman, Associate Professor of Economics, Georgia State University
- Sara Selwood, Quentin Hogg Research Fellow, School of Media, Arts, and Design, University of Westminster
- Dick Stanley, Director of Strategic Research and Analysis, Department of Canadian Heritage
- David Throsby, Professor of Economics, Macquarie University
- Alene Valkanas, Executive Director, Illinois Arts Alliance
- Anita Walker, Executive Director, Iowa Department of Cultural Affairs
- Greg Wassall, Professor of Economics, Northeastern University
Robert A. Baade is Professor of Economics and Business, Lake Forest College . His research interests vary from international trade and finance to the economics of professional and intercollegiate sport. He has conducted many economic impact studies, and is particularly interested in ways to improve the methodology, especially as it pertains to the cultural sector. He received his doctorate in economics from the University of Wisconsin .
David Beeman was a Research Assistant at the Cultural Policy Center , The University of Chicago during the 2003-2004 academic year. His research focused on improving the accuracy and legitimacy of economic impact analysis. Before coming to The University of Chicago, he lobbied members of Congress and political leaders and served as an editor and webmaster for an arts advocacy website named Active Artists. He holds a Master of Public Policy degree from The University of Chicago and is currently pursuing a Law Degree from Northwestern University .
David Brookshire is Professor of Economics at the University of New Mexico . His research areas include natural resource, natural hazard, and environmental economics, and he has designed and conducted extensive studies about public policy issues in these areas. He has served on several boards and committees regarding environmental issues and is an associate editor of several environmental policy journals. He received his doctorate in economics from the University of New Mexico .
Randy Cohen is Vice President of Research and Information at Americans for the Arts, a Washington D.C.-based, national service organization for community-based arts councils and individuals dedicated to advancing the arts and culture in America . Cohen has produced or co-produced several large-scale studies and projects on the economics of culture, including Jobs, Arts, and the Economy, a benchmark study on the economic impact of the arts industry in the United States . Prior to joining Americans for the Arts in 1991, Cohen worked as a Policy and Planning Specialist for the National Endowment for the Arts.
Don Coursey is Ameritech Professor of Public Policy Studies at the Irving B. Harris Graduate School of Public Policy Studies at The University of Chicago. His research is concerned largely with finding reliable methods for measuring preferences for and monetary value of public goods, such as environmental quality and cultural experiences. Coursey organized a conference on contingent valuation methodology for the arts in 2001 and was the organizer of the Lasting Effects conference. He holds a PhD in economics from the University of Arizona .
Tyler Cowen is Professor in the Department of Economics at George Mason University . His primary research interest is the application of economic theory to the understanding of culture and the arts. Cohen’s books, such as In Praise of Commercial Culture and Creative Destruction: How Globalization Is Changing the World's Cultures , are key references for the study of the economics of culture. He is currently writing a book about the scope and functioning of American arts policy. He holds a PhD in Economics from Harvard University .
Charles L. Granquist is Director of Pocantico Programs at the Pocantico Conference Center of the Rockefeller Brothers Foundation. The Center provides a setting where nonprofit organizations and public sector institutions can unite people of diverse backgrounds and perspectives for discussions on critical issues related to the Rockefeller Brothers Fund philanthropic program.
Pearl Imada Iboshi is the Chief Economist of the Research and Economic Analysis Division, at the State of Hawaii ’s Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism. The Department has recently created an Arts, Film, and Culture division, for which she is currently interested in exploring methodologies that can measure the effect of the cultural sector on Hawaii ’s development. She is also interested in international direct investment, international trade and finance, foreign policy, and international relations.
D. Carroll Joynes is Executive Director and co-founder of the Cultural Policy Center at The University of Chicago. In addition to overseeing the development of the Center, he is currently part of a research team that is producing a comprehensive map of minority participation in Chicago ’s cultural institutions, and he is writing a series of essays on boards of trustees in non-profit cultural organizations. He holds a PhD in European history from The University of Chicago.
Jonathan Katz is CEO of the National Assembly of States Arts Agencies (NASAA). Katz is a prominent national spokesman and advocate for state-level arts funding and the cultivation of cultural policy. Before joining NASAA, Katz was Professor of Government and Public Affairs and the Director of the Arts Administration Masters Program at the University of Illinois at Springfield . He has previously served as Executive Director of the Children's Museum of Denver and Executive Director of the Kansas Arts Commission.
Jim Kelly is the Director of the Cultural Development Authority of King County, Washington, a cultural services agency that provides financial support, technical assistance, and other resources for artists and arts organizations. The institution has implemented four core programs: public arts, arts funding, heritage funding, and preservation . As a practitioner he is interested in understanding the extent to which Economic Impact Analysis can serve as an advocacy tool.
Mary King is Professor and Chair of the Economics Department at Portland State University . King is interested in developing sound measurements that will demonstrate the instrumental benefits of the arts. In addition to this research, she works on the dynamics of ethnicity and gender in the labor market and economy, and she is the administrator of Portland State University ’s new culture and dance program. She holds a doctorate in economics from the University of California at Berkley .
Sarah Lee was a Research Assistant during the 2003 and 2004 academic year at the Cultural Policy Center , University of Chicago . Her interests are urban economic development, urban planning, historic preservation, and stadium design and financing. Sarah received a Master of Public Policy from the Harris School of Public Policy at The University of Chicago in 2004 and is currently pursuing a PhD in Public Policy at the same school.
Kevin McCarthy is Senior Social Scientist at RAND , the leading public policy think tank in the country. He is currently leading several arts-related projects, including: a study of the performing arts, an evaluation of programs designed to build public involvement in the arts, and a study of the media arts. McCarthy has written extensively on immigration and demographic issues and their policy implications, education, public- and private-sector employment, health and housing policy, and municipal finance issues. He holds a doctorate in sociology from the University of Wisconsin .
Douglas Noonan is Assistant Professor of Public Policy at the Georgia Institute of Technology. His research interests include environmental policy, genetic resources, and cultural policy. He has employed spatial econometrics and microeconomic theory as well as survey design methods to examine the value of environmental goods. He holds a doctorate in Public Policy from the Harris School of Public Policy at The University of Chicago.
Anthony Radich is the Executive Director of WESTAF. Prior to joining WESTAF, Radich served as the executive director of the Missouri Arts Council in St. Louis. During his tenure there, he was instrumental in the creation of the Missouri Cultural Trust, a public/private arts endowment fund that is projected to build to a corpus of $200 million in ten years. He has also served as the senior project manager for the Arts, Tourism and Cultural Resources committee of the National Conference of State Legislatures; chair of the Denver Commission on Cultural Affairs; and chair of the executive committee of the Mid-America Arts Alliance. Radich holds a master’s degree in art education from the University of Oregon and a doctorate in public administration from the University of Colorado at Denver.
Mandy Rafool is a Senior Policy Specialist at the National Conference of State Legislatures in Denver , Colorado , a professional organization that serves state legislators and legislator’s staff with research and technical assistance, and which provides a forum for policymakers to meet and exchange ideas on issues of pressing legislative concern. In order to maintain the Conference’s stature as a clearing house for policy-related, academic research in all fields, she has begun investigating how economic impact analysis can transformed into an effective and reliable tool for cultural policy.
Lawrence Rothfield is Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at The University of Chicago and Faculty Director of The University of Chicago’s Cultural Policy Center . He co-founded the Cultural Policy Center after serving as co-founder and Director of the Master of Arts Program in the Humanities. His major publications include Vital Signs, a book about the social function of the nineteenth-century novel; The Measure of Man, a study of the politics of culture in the Florentine Renaissance (forthcoming); and a volume of edited essays on the Brooklyn Museum controversy, Unsettling "Sensation": Arts Policy Lessons from the Brooklyn Museum of Art Controversy. He is currently overseeing a major new project on the impact of cultural "scenes" on regional urban development. As Faculty Director, he is responsible for the research and teaching agenda of the Center.
Michael Rushton is Associate Professor in the Department of Public Administration and Urban Studies at Georgia State University . His research focuses on cultural diversity and public funding of the arts, state funding of arts organizations, contingent valuation, and the economic analysis of freedom of expression. He has published numerous papers on public funding of the arts, copyright, and tax policy. He holds a PhD in Economics from the University of British Columbia .
William A. Schaffer is Emeritus Professor of Economics at the Georgia Institute of Technology. His primary academic interest is regional economics, and he has contributed to the research and modeling of regional inter-industry theories, on economic impact analysis and input-output applications, and on the teaching and theory of regional science. In addition, he has published studies of the economic impact of various professional sports teams, festivals, and educational and cultural activities throughout the nation. He holds a PhD in economics from Duke University .
J. Mark Schuster, Professor of Urban Cultural Policy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is a public policy analyst who specializes in the analysis of government policies and programs with respect to the arts, culture, and urban design. Schuster’s most recent publication is Mapping State Cultural Policy: The State of Washington. The product of collaboration with David Karraker , Lawrence Rothfield , Colleen Grogan, Susan Bonaiuto, and Steven Rathgeb Smith, Mapping State Cultural Policy applies the Council of Europe’s “Program of Reviews of National Cultural Policies” to the State of Washington . He has served as a consultant to the Council of Europe, the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), the Arts Council of Great Britain, the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Capital Planning Commission, the Canada Council, Canadian Heritage, the British American Arts Association, the London Arts Board, the British Museum, and National Public Radio, among many others. Schuster is Joint Editor of the Journal of Cultural Economics and a member of the editorial board of the International Journal of Cultural Policy.
Bruce Seaman is Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at Georgia State University . A former staff economist and consultant for the Federal Trade Commission, Seaman serves as a consultant in private antitrust, business contractual dispute, and civil tort cases. He has conducted research on the modeling of arts industry funding, price discrimination (including legal implications), the economics of crime, arts vs. sports labor markets, economic impact methodology, international trade in cultural goods, and various topics in taxation policy. He holds a PhD in economics from The University of Chicago.
Sara Selwood is Quentin Hogg Research Fellow at the School of Media , Arts and Design of the University of Westminster in London . Selwood is a cultural analyst and consultant with broad experience measuring the accountability of public and private funding for the arts in Great Britain . She edited the recent anthology, The UK Cultural Sector: Profile and Policy Issues, and she also edits Cultural Trends, Britain ’s leading source of statistical information on the arts and wider cultural sector.
Dick Stanley was the Director of Strategic Research and Analysis at the Department of Canadian Heritage, the Canadian government’s cultural department. While serving as Director, he commissioned and led economic impact analyses for projects conducted by the Department of Cultural Heritage. He is currently a visiting scholar at York University in Toronto .
David Throsby is Professor in the Department of Economics at Macquarie University , Sydney , Australia . He has written extensively on the economics of culture and arts. His book The Economics of the Performing Arts, co-authored with Glenn Withers, first published in 1979 and reissued in 1993, has become a standard reference work in the field. In addition to the performing arts, Professor Throsby’s research and writing has covered the economic role of artists, the economics of public intervention in arts markets, cultural development, cultural policy, heritage issues, and the sustainability of cultural processes. He holds a PhD in economics from the London School of Economics.
Alene Valkanas is Executive Director of the Illinois Arts Alliance (IAA) and the Illinois Arts Alliance Foundation (IAAF), organizations devoted to arts-related policy development, legislative advocacy, and the organization of statewide political action. The IAA and the IAAF provide research, public education programs, and other services that enhance the health of Illinois ’ nonprofit arts organizations. She also chairs the State Arts Advocacy League of America, an umbrella organization for other state arts advocacy organizations. In these positions, she has contracted several Economic Impact Analysis studies for advocacy purposes. Valkanas holds a MFA in arts education from The University of Chicago.
Anita Walker is Executive Director, Iowa Department of Cultural Affairs, the organization responsible for the development of the state's engagement in the arts, history, and other cultural matters. The Department’s activities include the design and recommendation of Iowa ’s cultural policy and increasing participation in the arts. At this conference, she is interested in understanding the value and accountability of Economic Impact Analysis for advocacy purposes .
Greg Wassall is Professor of Economics at Northeastern University in Boston. His teaching specialities include public economics and microeconomics, and he is known for his number economic impact studies, particularly of the arts and entertainment industry in the New England region. His research has been published in the Atlantic Economic Journal, National Tax Journal, Journal of Cultural Economics, and The Journal of Arts Management, Policy, and Law.