I study the business practices of the Comédie française, the main theater in Paris, between 1680 and 1793. The theater was an actors' partnership and operated within a (contested) oligopoly. Newly available data provide revenues by price category for over 32,000 performances. Attendance varied...

La 4e de couv. indique : "Cet ouvrage, en dressant un panorama historique et théorique de l'économie du spectacle vivant, décrit les spécificités de ses modes de financement comme de son marché de l'emploi, avec une attention particulière pour la logique de l'intermittence. Il dévoile un...

Goodwin explores women's lived experiences and work histories in Las Vegas during the second half of the twentieth century--a period of unprecedented growth in the city's service economy. Although Las Vegas' unique industry of gambling may initially suggest that women's work was somehow...

This paper analyzes the productivity development in the German public theater sector for the seasons 1991/1992-2005/2006. Using a stochastic distance frontier approach that allows to decompose total factor productivity change into different sources we examine (a) whether Baumol’s cost-disease...