Crafting values: economies, ethics and aesthetics of artistic valuation

The Ethics of Aesthetics

The article explores the relationships between aesthetics, ethics, and new media art by discussing the process, influences, and consequences of aesthetic judgements. The text proposes that the aesthetic judgements of artworks created in any medium, including new media, function as mechanisms for propagating certain ethical values.

Mastering the jazz standard: sayings and doings of artistic valuation

Values of Perfectly Competitive Economies

Dynamic Valuation Decomposition within Stochastic Economies

I explore the equilibrium value implications of economic models that incorporate responses to a stochastic environment with growth. I propose dynamic valuation decompositions (DVD’s) designed to distinguish components of an underlying economic model that influence values over long investment horizons from components that impact only the short run. A DVD represents the values of stochastically g...

Valuation of Tree Aesthetics on Small Urban-interface Properties

A model was developed to predict the value con­ tribution of forest condition on small urban-wildland inter­ face properties. Sample data were collected on property transactions in the Lake Tahoe Basin of California between 1990 and 1994. A variant of the stand density index (SDI) and a tree health measure were added to a list of traditional property characteristics (i.e., location, house size,...