The second edition of this widely acclaimed and extensively cited collection of original contributions by specialist authors reflects changes in the field of cultural economics over the last eight years. Thoroughly revised chapters alongside new topics and contributors bring the Handbook up to...

Sport ist ein bedeutender Wirtschaftsfaktor. Seine Professionalisierung und Kommerzialisierung schreiten seit vielen Jahren rasch voran. Parallel dazu hat sich die Sportökonomie entwickelt: Sie wendet das ökonomische Instrumentarium auf das Phänomen "Sport" an und spricht...

This book examines in detail the features and dynamics of sectoral systems of innovation and production in developing countries. Processes of rapid growth are usually associated with specific sectors such as automobiles, electronics or software, as well as with the transformation of traditional...

Several of the authors question the efficacy of copyright, which is increasingly regarded as benefiting multinational organisations rather than individual authors and performers. Others are less critical of copyright per se, but question its ability to meet the new challenges of a digital era....

This book is an economic analysis of plagiarism in music, focusing on social efficiency and questions of inequity in the revenue of authors/artists. The organisation into central chapters on the traditional literary aspect of composition and the technocratic problem of "sampling" will help...