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Embassy Event
US SPEAKER LECTURES ON PUBLIC FINANCE AND PERFORMING ARTS
September 5, 2007
Dr. Michael Rushton, Associate Professor at the School of Public and Environmental Affairs of the University of Indiana, lectured on "Public Finance and the Performing Arts in the United States" September 5 during the II International Meeting on Economy for the Performing Arts organized by the School of Economics of the University of Buenos Aires.
About Michael Rushton
Ph.D., University of British Columbia
M.A., University of Western Ontario
Professor Rushton teaches primarily in the Arts Administration program, and has research interests in cultural policy, tax policy, and nonprofit organizations. In the field of cultural policy he has published articles on copyright, freedom of expression, other legal rights of artists, the role of nonprofits in the arts, and public funding of the arts (especially the use of earmarked taxes for the arts). His current research projects include the relationship between the arts and urban economic growth, and the use of economic analysis in arts advocacy. Prior to joining SPEA in 2006, Professor Rushton held positions at Georgia State University, the University of Regina (Canada), where he also served as Dean of the Faculty of Fine Arts, the University of Tasmania (Australia) and St. Francis Xavier University (Canada). He has also held visiting positions at Erasmus University (The Netherlands), the University of Chicago, and Freiburg University (Germany). From 1998 to 2000 he worked with the Cabinet Planning Unit of the Government of Saskatchewan. He is Co-Editor of the Journal of Cultural Economics, and is on the Editorial Boards of the International Journal of Cultural Policy, and Public Finance and Management