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Recession is a time for asking fundamental questions about value. At a time when governments are being forced to make swingeing savings in public expenditure, why should they continue to invest public money funding research into ancient Greek tragedy, literary value, philosophical conundrums or the aesthetics of design? Does such research deliver 'value for money' and 'public benefit'? Such questions have become especially pertinent in the UK in recent years, in the context of the drive by gover

First Author: Bate, Jonathan
Attributed to:  Valuing Landscape and Environment: Arts and Humanities Perspectives funded by AHRC

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Bibliographic Information

Type: Book Chapter

Book Title: The Public Value of the Humanities (2011)

Page Reference: 105

ISBN: 9781849660624