[Mark]

One of the most prominent pioneers of the economic theory of culture was, of course, Judas Iscariot. A faithful son of his people, he monetise its closeness to the Savior, put it on the scales on the one hand - an emerging Christian culture, but on the other - 30 pieces of silver - an amount that allows time to buy a small plot of land in the vicinity of Jerusalem. A byproduct of the transaction, in his view, was to be the strengthening of stability of the Jewish society and the Empire as a whole.
  However, experience has proved to be unsuccessful ... without going into the intricacies of economic theory, and while in captivity retarded metaphysical beliefs, and Judah was forced to lay hands on himself, admitting de facto primacy to the heavenly partite.
  In the middle of the XIX century Karl Marx has finally and irrevocably set the record straight i, postulating and proving the primacy of the material and the universality of market relations in every aspect of human activity. From now on, everything can be bought and sold everything legitimately, and a traders' market was not exactly no reason for reflection, especially for suicide.
  Since then, any cultural process becomes not only justified but necessary, if the result is a surplus value. Surplus value - the new God of society. For his "Church", temples, priests, religious sects and other attributes ...
  There even Hesychasts, meaning that the service - a continuous prayer of the new deity. There are textbooks isichasm, authored by the apostles of the new faith - Dale Carnegie, Napoleon Hill and others like them, which - darkness ...

  Therefore, the establishment of a special discipline - economics of culture - is, in my opinion, quite far-fetched. Culture in a totally new society develops the method of "generation of meaning" and their further resale. From this point of view paintings as objects of market relations, are no different diapers or expensive cars. The very theory of the problem has been extensively studied and tested for over a century. The advantage of the modern economy to patriarchal based on the fact that the freely-traded "meaning" do not have to be mined in the mines, do not have to be treated, do not have to transport, store, etc.
  Enough "sgenererovat meaning" stick it to any subject, befitting the occasion to bring the victim in the form of advertising and wait for results ... Even the education for this economic activity is not required of priests. Only Faith. Faith in money, the belief in lack of spirituality, belief in the total barbarism ...
  It is naive to believe that the current paradigm of the producer of cultural property (eg, artist) play any prominent place. Latter not even means of production, not an instrument of labor. He - raw materials, clay for the true "creators" of cultural property.