Yes, Beauty Matters. Now What?

Great ideas are a splendid thing, and those that are true, even better. But ideas are embodied things, rooted in the real world — and reality has a knack for breaking the mould of ideology. In the arts, grand concepts are often treated like a game of chess: pondered endlessly, yet rarely brought to a decisive conclusion. Consequently, when it comes to economics, far too many insist on envisioning the future of the arts as if it could neatly conform to some off-the-shelf ideological blueprint.