Public lecture: economics of culture

Economics

Professor David Throsby, an international authority on the economics of the arts and culture, will deliver the 51st Joseph Fisher lecture in Elder Hall at the University of Adelaide on 16 August.

Professor Throsby will discuss the management of cultural heritage from an economic viewpoint. Decisions about the use, preservation and restoration of heritage are more usually made by heritage professionals, not economists, but Professor Throsby believes there are many economic dimensions to managing heritage.

The Joseph Fisher lecture, organised by the School of Economics, has been presented at the University every other year since 1904 and is among Australia's most prestigious public lectures.

Funds for the lectures and a medal for the top accounting student each year were kindly provided by an endowment to the University in 1903 by prominent Adelaide businessman Joseph Fisher.

Professor Throsby has been Professor of Economics at Macquarie University in Sydney since 1974. He has been a consultant to the World Bank, the OECD, FAO and UNESCO, as well as many government organisations and business. He was a member of the Experts' Committee drafting the UN Convention on Cultural Diversity in 2003-2004.

His most recent book, Economics and Culture, was published in 2001 by Cambridge University Press and has since been translated into five other languages.

The 2006 Joseph Fisher lecture, 'Paying for the Past: The Economics of Cultural Heritage', is a free public lecture, to be held at 6pm, Wednesday 16 August, at Elder Hall, University of Adelaide.

For more details contact (08) 8303 4768 or email: fisherlecture@adelaide.edu.au