Arts Vouchers to Replace Grants

Abstract

The annual jostling among arts producers for Arts Council grants is symptomatic of a regressive system which taxes the poor to subsidise the leisure of the better‐off Edwin West (right), Professor of Econmics at Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, argues for a voucher system to subsidise the less‐well‐off individually, and examines how apprehensive art bureaucrats torpedoed a British pilot scheme

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