Published 2011-12-01
“…Dance is further subject to what William Baumol calls the “productivity lag” in the
performing arts wherein dance, because it requires a fixed number of labour hours toproduce and perform, seems cost more than the consumer goods that have become easier and quicker to produce since industrialization.Training citizens’ bodies to be moved, and to move together, to dance and perform acts that create a common good, seems to be an externality – outside the bounds of market forces, something that is obfuscated and not talked about. …”
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