NDLI: How should cultural diversity be measured? An application using the French publishing industry

Content Provider	Springer Nature Link
Author	Benhamou, Françoise Peltier, Stéphanie
Copyright Year	2007
Abstract	Despite the lack of a clear definition of the concept, “cultural diversity” has remained a core issue for more than a decade (WTO, UNESCO, etc.). The aim of this paper is to begin to fill this gap. We argue that cultural diversity is a multi-dimensional concept and that accurate metrics must rely on three criteria: variety, balance and disparity. We also stress that supplied and consumed diversity have to be distinguished. We apply this set of multiple measures of diversity to publishing data for France over the period 1990–2003. Our main result is that the situation of the publishing industry in terms of cultural diversity is highly dependent on the dimension considered. Hence, diversity increases when variety is the sole consideration, whereas taking balance or disparity into account leads to the opposite conclusion. This issue raises a series of questions about the use of diversity measures in a policy debate concerned with furthering cultural diversity.
Starting Page	85
Ending Page	107
Page Count	23
File Format	PDF
ISSN	08852545
Journal	Journal of Cultural Economics
Volume Number	31
Issue Number	2
e-ISSN	15736997
Language	English
Publisher	Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers
Publisher Date	2007-04-03
Publisher Place	New York
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Books Publishing industry Diversity Diversity measures Cultural diversity Cultural economics Economic Policy Public Finance & Economics Microeconomics
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Economics, Econometrics and Finance

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