Economic dimension of crimes against cultural-historical and archaeological heritage (EN)

TL;DR

This paper explores the economic impact of crimes against cultural and archaeological heritage, proposing models to assess opportunity costs and societal benefits of heritage conservation.

Contribution

It introduces a novel economic model, combining classical theories with cultural economics tools, to evaluate the societal costs of heritage crimes.

Findings

Models estimate opportunity costs of heritage crimes.

Highlights importance of conservation for societal benefits.

Provides a framework for policy assessment.

Abstract

The publication is one of the first studies of its kind, devoted to the economic dimension of crimes against cultural and archaeological heritage. Lack of research in this area is largely due to irregular global prevalence vague definition of economic value of the damage these crimes cause to the society at national and global level, to present and future generations. The author uses classical models of Becker and Freeman, by modifying and complementing them with the tools of economics of culture based on the values of non-use. The model tries to determine the opportunity costs of this type of crime in several scenarios and based on this to determine the extent of their limitation at an affordable cost to society and raising public benefits of conservation of World and National Heritage.