David Throsby

Research Outputs

Research output per year 1961 2021

• 22 h-Index
• 81 Article
• 39 Chapter
• 22 Book/Film/Article/Exhibition review
• 16 Conference proceeding contribution
• 58 More
  • 10 Commissioned report
  • 10 Other report
  • 9 Book
  • 8 Letter
  • 4 Book/Film/Article review
  • 3 Edited Book/Anthology
  • 2 Foreword/postscript/introduction
  • 2 Comment/opinion
  • 2 Review article
  • 1 Textbook
  • 1 Entry for encyclopedia/dictionary/reference book
  • 1 Other chapter contribution
  • 1 Abstract
  • 1 Editorial
  • 1 Short survey
  • 1 Digital or Visual products
  • 1 Other contribution

Research output per year

Research output per year

Search results

• 2021

  Cultural policy and investment in China: Do they realize the government's cultural objectives?

  Yi, X., Throsby, D. & Gao, S., 1 Mar 2021, In: Journal of Policy Modeling. 43, 2, p. 416-432 17 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Cultural Policy 100%
  • Cultural Services 80%
  • Cultural Goods 79%
  • China 59%
  • Government 39%

• Non-pecuniary rewards, multiple job-holding and the labour supply of creative workers: The case of book authors

  Longden, T. & Throsby, D., Mar 2021, In: Economic Record. 97, 316, p. 24-44 21 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Multiple Job Holding 100%
  • Labor Supply 55%
  • Reward 44%
  • Workers 35%
  • Income 32%
  1 Citation (Scopus)

• Public preferences for heritage conservation strategies: a choice modelling approach

  Throsby, D., Zednik, A. & Araña, J. E., Sep 2021, In: Journal of Cultural Economics. 45, 3, p. 333-358 26 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  File

  • Heritage Conservation 100%
  • Public Preferences 91%
  • Choice Modelling 77%
  • Cultural Heritage 71%
  • Cultural Values 64%
  2 Citations (Scopus)

  3 Downloads (Pure)
• 2020

  Submission to the Committee on Communications and the Arts: Inquiry into Australia’s creative and cultural industries and institutions

  Throsby, D., Zwar, J. & Crosby, P., 19 Oct 2020, 6 p. Parliament of Australia.

  Research output: Other contribution

  • cultural economy 100%
  • economic value 95%
  • communications 68%
  • art 59%
  • industry 47%

• The Gender pay gap among Australian artists: some preliminary findings

  Throsby, D., Petetskaya, K. & Shin, S. Y., 12 Nov 2020, Sydney: Australia Council for the Arts. 11 p.

  Research output: Book/Report › Commissioned report

  Open Access

  • artist 100%
  • gender 50%
  • income 29%
  • art 16%
  • earned income 10%

• Why is the gender pay gap in the arts so large? Widespread discrimination is the most likely cause

  Throsby, D. & Shin, S. Y., 11 Nov 2020, The Conversation.

  Research output: Contribution to Newspaper/Magazine/Website › Article

  Open Access
• 2019

  Integrating art production and economic development in Arnhem Land, Northern Territory: National survey of remote Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists

  Throsby, D. & Petetskaya, K., 30 Aug 2019, Sydney: Macquarie University. 83 p.

  Research output: Book/Report › Commissioned report

  Open Access

  • art production 100%
  • artist 60%
  • economics 26%
  • desert 10%

• Integrating art production and economic development in North West NT and the Tiwi Islands: National survey of remote Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists

  Throsby, D. & Petetskaya, K., 1 May 2019, North Ryde, NSW: Macquarie University. 88 p.

  Research output: Book/Report › Commissioned report

  Open Access

  • art production 100%
  • artist 60%
  • economics 26%
  • cultural development 7%
  • desert 7%

• Integrating art production and economic development in the Central Desert (NT) and the APY Lands (SA): National survey of remote Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists

  Throsby, C. & Petetskaya, K., 1 Apr 2019, Sydney: Macquarie University. 94 p.

  Research output: Book/Report › Commissioned report

  Open Access

  • art production 100%
  • desert 71%
  • artist 60%
  • economics 26%
  • Homelands 12%

• More than economics: cultural value and the Australian book industry

  Crosby, P. & Throsby, D., 1 Sep 2019, Publishing and culture. Baker, D. J., Brien, D. L. & Webb, J. (eds.). Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, p. 65-84 20 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

  3 Citations (Scopus)
• 2018

  Art, politics, money: revisiting Australia's cultural policy

  Throsby, D., 2018, Strawberry Hills, NSW: Currency House. 78 p. (Platform papers : quarterly essays on the performing arts; no. 55)

  Research output: Book/Report › Book › peer-review

  • cultural policy 100%
  • money 65%
  • art 60%
  • politics 46%
  • economics 26%

• Book festivals

  Throsby, D., 14 Dec 2018, TLS: the Times Literary Supplement, 6037, p. 31 1 p.

  Research output: Contribution to Newspaper/Magazine/Website › Book/Film/Article review

  • book review 100%
  • festival 94%

• Culturally sustainable development: theoretical concept or practical policy instrument?

  Throsby, D., 2018, Cultural policies for sustainable development. Kangas, A., Duxbury, N. & De Beukelaer, C. (eds.). Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group, p. 5-19 15 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

• How do we decide the value of art?

  Cathcart, M., Meyrick, J., Throsby, D. & Glow, H., 1 Oct 2018

  Research output: Non-traditional research output › Digital or Visual products

  • art 100%
  • audience participation 25%
  • cultural management 25%
  • university teacher 24%
  • cultural policy 20%

• The music business

  Throsby, D., 22 Jun 2018, TLS: the Times Literary Supplement, 6012, p. 31 1 p.

  Research output: Contribution to Newspaper/Magazine/Website › Book/Film/Article review

  • book review 100%
  • music 70%
  • economics 35%
• 2017

  Breaking the banks: The pernicious, shady and dangerous world of high finance

  Throsby, D., 14 Jul 2017, TLS: the Times Literary Supplement, 5963, p. 9 1 p.

  Research output: Contribution to Newspaper/Magazine/Website › Book/Film/Article review

  • book review 100%
  • bank 74%
  • finance 70%
  • scandal 30%
  • banking 29%
  2 Citations (Scopus)

• Commerce or culture? Australian book industry policy in the twenty-first century

  Throsby, D., 2017, Publishing means business: Australian perspectives. Mannion, A., Weber, M. & Day, K. (eds.). Clayton, Victoria: Monash University Publishing, p. 1-21 21 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

  Open Access
  1 Citation (Scopus)

• Culturally sustainable development: theoretical concept or practical policy instrument?

  Throsby, D., 4 Mar 2017, In: The International Journal of Cultural Policy. 23, 2, p. 133-147 15 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • sustainable development 100%
  • cultural policy 56%
  • cultural development 28%
  • policy area 25%
  • development strategy 23%
  35 Citations (Scopus)

• In defence of measurement: a comment on Phiddian et al.

  Throsby, D., 2017, In: Cultural Trends. 26, 4, p. 314-317 4 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Editorial › peer-review
  2 Citations (Scopus)

• Making art work: An economic study of professional artists in Australia

  Throsby, C. & Petetskaya, K., 2017, Strawberry Hills: Australia Council for the Arts. 244 p.

  Research output: Book/Report › Commissioned report

  Open Access

  • study of economics 100%
  • artist 70%
  • art 52%
  • contractual arrangement 25%
  • employment conditions 24%

• “A Rising Tide Raises All Boats”

  Throsby, D., 2017, Economic ideas you should forget. Frey, B. S. & Iselin, D. (eds.). Cham, Switzerland: Springer, Springer Nature, p. 149-150 2 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

  • persuasion 100%
  • prosperity 97%
  • economist 92%
  • metaphor 82%
  • economics 80%
• 2016

  All's well that spends well

  Throsby, D., 14 Dec 2016, TLS: the Times Literary Supplement, 5933, p. 12-13 2 p.

  Research output: Contribution to Newspaper/Magazine/Website › Article

  Open Access

• Assessment of the Economic Impact of the Cultural Heritage and Urban Development Project Lebanon

  Throsby, D. & Petetskaya, E., 2016, Beirut, Lebanon. 141 p.

  Research output: Book/Report › Commissioned report

• Economics

  Throsby, D., 30 Sep 2016, In: TLS: the Times Literary Supplement. 5922, p. 30-31 2 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article/Exhibition review

• Integrating art production and economic development in the Kimberley: National survey of remote Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists

  Throsby, D. & Petetskaya, E., 2016, North Ryde, NSW: Macquarie University. 49 p.

  Research output: Book/Report › Commissioned report

  Open Access

  • art production 100%
  • artist 60%
  • economics 26%
  • town 17%
  • empowerment 16%

• Investment in urban heritage conservation in developing countries: concepts, methods and data

  Throsby, D., Jun 2016, In: City, Culture and Society. 7, 2, p. 81-86 6 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • investment appraisal 100%
  • Heritage Conservation 87%
  • heritage conservation 78%
  • developing world 46%
  • assets 45%
  32 Citations (Scopus)

• Les économies de terroir comme atouts économiques et culturels: valeur, valorisation et durabilité

  Throsby, D., 2016, La valeur patrimoniale des économies de terroir. Anatole-Gabriel, I. (ed.). Dijon: Editions universitaires de Dijon, p. 79-87 9 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

• Promoting sustainable urban development through nvestment in cultural heritage

  Throsby, C., 2016, Culture urban tuture: global report on culture for sustainable urban development. Paris: United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), p. 233 1 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

  Open Access

• Sustainability Concepts in Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Cultures

  Throsby, D. & Petetskaya, E., 1 May 2016, In: International Journal of Cultural Property. 23, 2, p. 119-140 22 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Indigenous Culture 100%
  • Sustainability 82%
  • sustainability 59%
  • Indigenous Knowledge Systems 21%
  • Torres Strait 19%
  9 Citations (Scopus)

• The composer in the market place revisited: The economics of music composition today

  Throsby, D., 1 Jan 2016, The Artful Economist: A New Look at Cultural Economics. Rizzo, I. & Towse, R. (eds.). Cham, Switzerland: Springer, Springer Nature, p. 153-170 18 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

  • composer 100%
  • music 60%
  • Labor Supply Decision 49%
  • Music 44%
  • Incentive Structure 43%
  3 Citations (Scopus)

• Understanding art markets: inside the world of art and business

  Throsby, D., Dec 2016, In: Journal of Economic Literature. 54, 4, p. 1405-1406 2 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article/Exhibition review
• 2015

  Artwash: big oil and the arts

  Throsby, D., 1 May 2015, TLS: the Times Literary Supplement, 5848, p. 26-26 1 p.

  Research output: Contribution to Newspaper/Magazine/Website › Article

• Authors' allocation of time

  Zwar, J., Throsby, D. & Longden, T., Oct 2015, North Ryde, NSW: Macquarie University. 5 p. (Australian authors Industry Briefs; no. 6)

  Research output: Book/Report › Other report

  Open Access

  File

  • Industry 100%
  12 Downloads (Pure)

• Authors and publishers

  Zwar, J., Throsby, D. & Longden, T., Oct 2015, North Ryde, NSW: Macquarie University. 15 p. (Australian authors Industry Briefs; no. 9)

  Research output: Book/Report › Other report

  Open Access

  File

  • research projects 100%
  • researchers 75%
  • industry 59%
  30 Downloads (Pure)

• Authors' income

  Zwar, J., Throsby, D. & Longden, T., Oct 2015, North Ryde, NSW: Macquarie University. 7 p. (Australian authors Industry Briefs; no. 3)

  Research output: Book/Report › Other report

  Open Access

  File

  • research projects 100%
  • income 78%
  • researchers 75%
  • industry 59%
  388 Downloads (Pure)

• Authors’ changing professional practices

  Zwar, J., Throsby, D. & Longden, T., Oct 2015, North Ryde, NSW: Macquarie University. 5 p. (Australian authors Industry Briefs; no. 5)

  Research output: Book/Report › Other report

  Open Access

  File

  • online survey 100%
  • grant 89%
  • research project 80%
  • industry 63%
  • time 38%
  17 Downloads (Pure)

• Book authors and their changing circumstances: survey method and results

  Throsby, D., Zwar, J. & Longden, T., Sep 2015, In: Macquarie economics research papers. 2015, 2, 57 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

  Open Access

  File

  • industry 100%
  • technological change 93%
  • genre 76%
  • writer 72%
  • promotion 63%
  60 Downloads (Pure)

• Changes in authors' financial position

  Zwar, J., Throsby, D. & Longden, T., Oct 2015, North Ryde, NSW: Macquarie University. 5 p. (Australian authors Industry Briefs; no. 4)

  Research output: Book/Report › Other report

  Open Access

  File

  • online survey 100%
  • grant 89%
  • research project 80%
  • industry 63%
  • time 38%
  17 Downloads (Pure)

• Culture in sustainable development

  Throsby, D., 2015, Re|shaping cultural policies - a decade promoting the diversity of cultural expressions for development. Anheier, H. K., Deloumeaux, L., van Graan, M., Guèvremont, V., Isar, Y. R., Joseph, A., Kleberg, C-J., Kulesz, O., Merkel, C. M., Koržinek, N. O., Reitov, O., Sanan, S., Schultz, M. & Throsby, D. (eds.). Paris, France: United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), p. 151-169 19 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

• Demographics of Australian book authors

  Zwar, J., Throsby, D. & Longden, T., Oct 2015, North Ryde, NSW: Macquarie University. 7 p. (Australian authors Industry Briefs; no. 2)

  Research output: Book/Report › Other report

  Open Access

  File

  • research projects 100%
  • demographic statistics 81%
  • researchers 75%
  • industry 59%
  30 Downloads (Pure)

• Development strategies for Pacific Island economies: is there a role for the cultural industries?

  Throsby, D., May 2015, In: Asia & the Pacific policy studies. 2, 2, p. 370-382 13 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Cultural Industries 100%
  • Pacific Islands 97%
  • Strategy Development 76%
  • development strategy 76%
  • economy 46%
  8 Citations (Scopus)

• Key findings

  Zwar, J., Throsby, D. & Longden, T., Oct 2015, North Ryde, NSW: Macquarie University. 8 p. (Australian authors Industry Briefs; no. 1)

  Research output: Book/Report › Other report

  File

  • research projects 100%
  • researchers 75%
  • industry 59%
  41 Downloads (Pure)

• Promotion

  Zwar, J., Throsby, D. & Longden, T., Oct 2015, North Ryde, NSW: Macquarie University. 8 p. (Australian authors Industry Briefs; no. 8)

  Research output: Book/Report › Other report

  Open Access

  File

  • research projects 100%
  • researchers 75%
  • industry 59%
  14 Downloads (Pure)

• Remote indigenous cultural practitioners in East Arnhem Land: survey methodology and principal results

  Throsby, D. & Petetskaya, E., 2015, In: Macquarie economics research papers. 2015, 1, 34 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

  • methodology 100%
  • regional economy 72%
  • cultural capital 60%
  • economics 47%
  • art production 44%

• Rights sales, translations and piracy

  Zwar, J., Throsby, D. & Longden, T., Oct 2015, North Ryde, NSW: Macquarie University. 6 p. (Australian authors Industry Briefs; no. 7)

  Research output: Book/Report › Other report

  Open Access

  File

  • research projects 100%
  • sales 85%
  • researchers 75%
  • industry 59%
  9 Downloads (Pure)

• Risky business

  Throsby, D., 3 Jul 2015, In: TLS: the Times Literary Supplement. 5857, p. 28 1 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Comment/opinion

• The cultural industries as a sector of the economy

  Throsby, D., 2015, The Routledge companion to the cultural industries. Oakley, K. & O'Connor, J. (eds.). London and New York: Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group, p. 56-69 14 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

  8 Citations (Scopus)

• Trust funds

  Throsby, D., 31 Jul 2015, In: TLS: the Times Literary Supplement. 5861, p. 28-28 1 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article/Exhibition review

  1 Citation (Scopus)
• 2014

  Bunka seisaku no keizaigaku

  Throsby, D., Gotō, K. & Sakamoto, T., 2014, Kyoto: Minerubashobō. 303 p.

  Research output: Book/Report › Textbook

• Digital complements or substitutes? A quasi-field experiment from the Royal National Theatre

  Bakhshi, H. & Throsby, D., Feb 2014, In: Journal of Cultural Economics. 38, 1, p. 1-8 8 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Field Experiment 100%
  • Substitute 79%
  • Broadcast 75%
  • Digital Broadcast 63%
  • Performing Arts 45%
  17 Citations (Scopus)