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@article{ Mélitz2007,
title = {The impact of English dominance on literature and welfare},
author = {Mélitz, Jacques},
journal = {Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization},
number = {2},
pages = {193-215},
volume = {64},
year = {2007},
doi = {https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2006.10.003},
urn = {https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-199571},
abstract = {Market forces privilege the translation of English fiction and poetry into other languages, and thus pose a danger for the accumulation of capital in the form of literature. A variety of source languages in translations makes literary capital more valuable as such. Further, the importance of writing in English in order to reach a world audience lowers the pool of talent capable of contributing to literature. The paper starts with a model of the world publishing market that explains why the dominant language acquires a disproportionate share of translations. Then the reasoning proceeds from theory to the empirical evidence.},
}