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  2. History of schools of economic thought on arts and culture

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    Ilya Repin, portrait of Pavel Tretyakov, 1901. The contemporary economics of culture most often takes as its starting point Baumol and Bowen's [1] seminal work on the performing arts, which argues that reflection on the arts has been part of the history of economic thought since the birth of modern economics in the seventeenth century.

  3. Industrial arts - Wikipedia

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    Industrial Arts (IA) is an important part of the (NSW) high school curriculum. Industrial Arts syllabi are managed, like all NSW syllabi by the Board of Studies.In some schools Industrial Arts faculties have become part of a larger Technology faculty, however, many schools still have a stand-alone Industrial Arts faculty.

  4. Economics of the arts and literature - Wikipedia

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    Economics of the arts and literature or cultural economics (used below for convenience) is a branch of economics that studies the economics of creation, distribution, and the consumption of works of art, literature and similar creative and/or cultural products. For a long time, the concept of the "arts" were confined to visual arts (e.g ...

  5. Technology and society - Wikipedia

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    Persuasion technology: In economics, definitions or assumptions of progress or growth are often related to one or more assumptions about technology's economic influence. Challenging prevailing assumptions about technology and its usefulness has led to alternative ideas like uneconomic growth or measuring well-being .

  6. Economics - Wikipedia

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    The earlier term for the discipline was "political economy", but since the late 19th century, it has commonly been called "economics". [22] The term is ultimately derived from Ancient Greek οἰκονομία (oikonomia) which is a term for the "way (nomos) to run a household (oikos)", or in other words the know-how of an οἰκονομικός (oikonomikos), or "household or homestead manager".

  7. Technology and Livelihood Education - Wikipedia

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    Technology and Livelihood Education (TLE) is one of the learning areas of the Secondary Education Curriculum used in Philippine secondary schools. [1] As a subject in high school, its component areas are: Home Economics, Agri-Fishery Arts, Industrial Arts, and Information and Communications Technology. [2]

  8. Technology dynamics - Wikipedia

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    Conversely, modern technology dynamics studies generally advocate that technologies are not "self-evident" or market-demanded, but are the upshot of a particular path of technology development and are shaped by social, economic and political factors. in this sense, technology dynamics aims at overcoming distinct "internal" and "external" points ...

  9. Economic theory of museums - Wikipedia

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    Although there are various types of museums, such as art, science and technology, and ecomuseums, the challenge remains to balance preservation and educational goals with the career objectives of museum managers. In the 1990s, science and technology museums faced fewer challenges in terms of funding and legitimacy [6] compared to art museums ...