This volume contains a large selection of the invited papers given at the Twelfth Conference of the Association of Cultural Economics International held in Rotterdam in 2002. Two sessions were devoted to what came to be called the cultural industries (movies, television, media, etc.). Two dealt...

Creativity loosely refers to activities in the visual arts, music, design, film and performance that are primarily intended to produce forms of affect and social meaning. Yet, over the last few decades, creativity has also been explicitly mobilized by governments around the world as a "resource"...

The Industrialization of Creativity and its Limits: Introducing Concepts, Theories and Themes -- Towards Post-Growth Creative Economies?: Building Sustainable Cultural Production in Argentina -- Creative Workers in Permanent Crisis: Labor in the Croatia’s Contemporary Arts and Culture -- The...