Education
As an undergraduate he studied at the University of Sydney and received his doctorate from the London School of Economics.
As an undergraduate he studied at the University of Sydney and received his doctorate from the London School of Economics.
His book Economics and Culture (2001) has become a standard reference work in the field In addition to the performing arts, Throsby"s research and writing has covered the economic role of artists, the economics of public intervention in arts markets, cultural development, cultural policy, heritage issues, and sustainability of cultural processes. He has also written extensively on the theory of public goods and the economics of higher education.
Throsby is a Distinguished Professor of Economics at Macquarie University, Sydney.
He is a past-president of the Association for Cultural Economics International (ACEI) and Foundation Chair of the National Association for the Visual Arts. He is on the editorial boards of journals including the Journal of Cultural Economics and the International Journal of Cultural Policy and has served on the boards of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, The Australian Museum and the Copyright Agency Limited.
His survey of cultural economics in Journal of Economic Literature has been frequently quoted since 1994. His most recent book is The Economics of Cultural Policy (2010).
"The Political Economy of Art: Ruskin and contemporary cultural economics", History of Political Economy, 43(2): 275-294. "The Production and Consumption of the Arts: A View of Cultural Economics", Journal of Economic Literature, Volume XXXII, 1994, pp.
