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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The authors have greatly benefitted from the research, thinking, and contributions
of others over the course of this project. We are grateful for the fine
contributions of all of the authors whose work we review in this study, and especially
would like to thank the authors and publishers who granted us permission
to reprint tables and diagrams from their work. They are acknowledged
individually in the appropriate places. Hearty thanks to Diane Ragsdale,
our thought partner in this work, for broadening the base of literature, and
for her insightful comments at every stage. Several researchers with deep experience
exploring the contours of cultural value were generous in sharing
their perspectives with us, including Dave O’Brien of City University London,
Colin Walker of Western Australia’s Department of Culture and the Arts,
Michael Chappell of Pracsys, Sarah Gardner and Annamari Laaksonen of the
International Federation of Arts Councils and Culture Agencies (IFACCA),
and Sunil Iyengar of the National Endowment for the Arts. Both IFACCA and
the British Council helped us circulate a call for literature recommendations
to the international research community, which generated many responses, all
of which were helpful. Catherine Bunting and John Knell were kind enough
to share their work in progress, which contributed substantially to the present
discussion. Last but not least, we would like to thank Ben Brown, Richard
Russell and Andrew Mowlah from Arts Council England for their guidance
and helpful feedback throughout.
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