The current article traces back the scientific interest to cultural levels across the organization at the University of National and World Economy, and especially in the series of Economic Alternatives - an official scientific magazine, issued by this Institution. Further, a wider and critical...

The nonprofit performing arts have received substantial attention in the cultural economics literature, and represent an interesting application for many areas of economic inquiry. This chapter surveys the relevant theory and the most prominent empirical studies on performing arts nonprofits....

Chapter 1: Preface -- Chapter 2: The Triumph of Serious Art -- Chapter 3: Authentic Art and Artists -- Chapter 4: Exclusion -- Chapter 5: Distrust of Commerce and Commercialism -- Chapter 6: Sharing Art -- Chapter 7: Present and Future Changes -- Chapter 8: Conclusion.

Chapter 1: A Pragmatic approach to the arts -- Chapter 2: What values are, and how we learn to appreciate them -- Chapter 3: How Artists Imagine New Worlds -- Chapter 4: How the Audience, as Participant, Makes Worlds Real -- Chapter 5: Making Space for Cultural Civil Society.