Enrico Bertacchini

“What’s wrong with the arts is what’s wrong with society.” (Tibor Scitovsky, 1972)

Associate Professor of Public Economics at the Department of Economics and Statistics, University of Torino

Spokeperson, UNESCO Chair on the Economics of Culture and Heritage

Vice-president, Master program on the Economics of Environment, Culture and Territory

Member of the Scientific Board of the Ph.D Program in Institutions, Law and Economics.

My research focuses on the economic analysis of the cultural and creative sectors, at the intersection of public economics, political economy, economic geography and institutional analysis. I study how incentives, public policies and institutional arrangements shape the production, consumption and governance of culture, and how cultural assets and creative activities contribute to local and regional development. My work ranges from the economics of the provision of culture as a collective good, to the economic geography of cultural and creative industries, the digital transformation of cultural organizations and the economic effects of heritage designations, drawing on applied econometrics and policy-evaluation methods.

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