The Arts, New Growth Theory, and Economic Development

New growth theory argues that, in advanced economies, economic growth stems less from the acquisition of additional capital and more from innovation and new ideas. On May 10, 2012, the Brookings Institution and the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) hosted a symposium examining new growth theory as a tool for assessing the impact of art and culture on the U.S. economy, including the theory that cities play a major role in facilitating economic growth. The symposium featured papers jointly commissioned by the NEA Office of Research & Analysis and Michael Rushton, the co-editor of the Journal of Cultural Economics. The presentations were moderated by experts from Brookings, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, and the U.S. Department of Commerce.

Videos of the symposium sessions are available along with the presenters' PowerPoints and abstracts of the commissioned papers.

Download Presentation Slides (PDFs):

Abstracts of the Commissioned Papers
Mateos-Garcia's slides
Sheppard's Slides
Gray's Slides
Wyszomirski's Slides
Root-Bernstein's Slides
Noonan's Slides
Glaeser's Slides
Soloveichik's Slides
Markusen's Slides
Kushner's Slides
Maloney's Slides
Schmitz's Slides
Schuetz's Slides