Year:
2006
Autor(s):
Renato Galvão Flôres Junior
Serie number: 626
Abstract:
The implications of diversity still raise confusion in the cultural debate. We address them from both a formal and conceptual viewpoints, putting in check the validity of some arguments. We conclude that: measuring diversity demands key decisions and careful statistical procedures; ignorance on optimal diversity levels and on ways to generate them is widespread in the cultural field; there is no support for cultural diversity as something associated to fair economic and political systems; restriction to sheer economics requires the establishment of links between diversity and measurable properties ? something rather incipient. Diversity, as a social choice, should be distinguished from it as an economic value.