Are Art Museums a Public Good?
When you approach a museum, even from the outside you begin to enter a realm of possibilities. Most art museums enrich the senses, breech the outer thickness beneath your hard skull and start your mind on a journey that an educated society feels can only better your life experience. But is it a public good? A museum may be a public good in terms that it provides a service that enriches those that come to it, but in economic terms and by definition of our textbook, Survey of Economics by Irvin B Tucker, all museums are not a public good. A public good, as defined by the Tucker textbook, has two qualities. One, it can not bar anyone access to that good or service and two, more than one user can use it at a time. An example of a public good, are the traffic lights that we speed under every day on our way to work or school. Everyone can use them and they will not diminish in their ability to serve the public. Although we pay taxes to pay for the light to work, people who cannot afford to pay are not blocked from using th
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