
Farchy argues that the market is a threat to cultural diversity and that the policy responses introduced by governments, such as the “ exception culturelle”, are insufficient to counteract this threat. Simply introducing the concept of cultural diversity in cultural policy which aims at finding a balance between an economic vision of culture (limited to cultural industries) and a broad vision based on all cultural expressions is also not enough. Policy concepts of cultural diversity must also address the diversity of producers and of productions as well as a diversity of supply and demand.
http://www.planetagora.org/doc/Barcelona_farchy.doc
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