Cultural capital is assumed to benefit all members of society. It is built up by the aggregate consumption of cultural goods and is diminished through depreciation. In the no-policy market economy, consumers tend to ignore the beneficial external effects of their cultural good consumption on the...

This paper draws on the deconstruction(ist) toolbox and specifically on the textual unweaving tactics of exemplarity, parergonality and supplementarity, with view to critically assessing institutional and ordinary tourists' claims to authenticity as regards artefacts and sites of ‘cultural...

This book reassesses central topics in cultural economics: Public finance and public choice theory as the basis for decision-making in cultural and media policy, the role of welfare economics in cultural policy, the economics of creative industries, the application of empirical testing to the...

Contents: 1. Setting the scene -- 2. From cultural heritage to local development -- 3. Creativity: definitions and measures -- 4. A new conceptual framework for the definition and measurement of creativity -- 5. From cultural heritage to creativity -- 6. From creativity to socio-economic...