Key Concepts: Demand, Financial Risk, Rate of Return
Grade 9-12
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Making Sen$e with Paul Solman: Artists Learn Art of Business to Brave Tough Economic Times
Updated: July 9 2013,
Author: barrel fan
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In the classical performing arts, more and more artists — ever more highly skilled — compete for fewer and fewer jobs, ever more poorly paid. Economics correspondent Paul Solman reports on how artists are learning to fine-tune their entrepreneurial skills in order to help them design their own careers in an unsure economy.
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