What Cultural Asset Economics Is Not

What Cultural Asset Economics Is Not is a methodological clarification note defining the boundaries of Cultural Asset Economics (CAE). It explains that CAE is not a valuation framework, forecasting model, financial advice tool, cultural merit ranking, governance law substitute, asset pricing model, or composite scoring system. The note positions CAE as a bounded structural diagnostic framework for analyzing ownership positions whose continuity, transferability, and reversibility are shaped by legal, regulatory, governance, reputational, or institutional entanglement. It also clarifies CAE’s commitment to non-aggregation: its analytical lenses are ordinal, structurally distinct, and not reducible to a single composite score or ranking. This release is intended to prevent methodological misinterpretation and to define the limits of application for the broader CAE framework and its related indexes, including CADI, OFI, GTRI, EOI, and CYI. The work should be read as a boundary-setting companion note to the main Cultural Asset Economics papers.