Calling All Music-Industry Insiders and the Economists Who Love Them

The Princeton economist Alan Krueger — he led the Council of Economic Advisers under Obama, and his research has been featured several times on Freakonomics.com — is among a group of scholars launching a new endeavor.

普林斯顿大学经济学家艾伦·克鲁格（Alan Krueger）是一群发起新努力的学者之一，他领导了奥巴马政府的经济顾问委员会，他的研究多次在 Freakonomics.com 上发表。

It’s called the Music Industry Research Association, and they want you to come to their first conference, at UCLA, in August.

它被称为音乐产业研究协会，他们希望您参加他们八月份在加州大学洛杉矶分校举行的第一次会议。

Here’s their writeup:

这是他们的文章：

Starting with Alfred Marshall ’s “superstar model” and continuing with Baumol ’s Disease , a number of breakthroughs in economics have come from studying the music industry.

从阿尔弗雷德·马歇尔的“超级巨星模型”开始，一直到鲍莫尔病，经济学上的许多突破都来自于对音乐产业的研究。

The music business also provides a fun and easy way to engage students in economics.

音乐行业还提供了一种有趣且简单的方式来吸引学生学习经济学。

To promote cutting-edge research on the economics of music, a group of economists, including Alan Krueger , Joel Waldfogel and Julie Mortimer , has formed the Music Industry Research Association (MIRA).

为了促进音乐经济学的前沿研究，艾伦·克鲁格（Alan Krueger）、乔尔·瓦尔德福格尔（Joel Waldfogel）和朱莉·莫蒂默（Julie Mortimer）等经济学家组成了音乐产业研究协会（MIRA）。

The goal of MIRA is to provide a forum for economists and other researchers to interact with one another and music industry professionals to study trends, developments, and challenges facing the music industry, and to provide access to data.

MIRA 的目标是为经济学家和其他研究人员以及音乐行业专业人士提供一个互动的论坛，以研究音乐行业面临的趋势、发展和挑战，并提供数据访问权限。

MIRA will hold its first conference of researchers, industry leaders, and musicians on August 10–11, 2017, at the Luskin Conference Center at the University of California, Los Angeles.

MIRA 将于 2017 年 8 月 10 日至 11 日在加州大学洛杉矶分校拉斯金会议中心举行首次由研究人员、行业领袖和音乐家参加的会议。

You can register for the conference here .

您可以在此处注册参加会议。