Tyler Cowen. What Price Fame? Cambr...

Tyler Cowen. What Price Fame? Cambridge: Harvard UP 2000 248 pp ISBN 0-674-00155-9 $2200

Economist Tyler Cowen settles out to explore the relationship between fame and merit in the celebrity marketplace. In his brief examples, Cowen veils a wide historical period, from ancient Greece to the not absent and a wide range of star systems: sports figures, Hollywood stars, classical and popular musicians, war heroes, scientists, politicians, artists, authors, on the same level Catholic saints. Another entry into the agriculture wars, the book optimistically argues that a "successful society