Two decades of empirical evaluation have shown that corruption has a negative impact on economic growth, political stability, judicial effectiveness, democratization, educational attainment, and equality of income. However, corruption exists, persists, and varies significantly by culture. Lab...

Acknowledgements -- Introduction: cultural work and justice -- Justice for cultural objects -- Practices, ethics and cultural work -- Talent, merit and arts education -- The long day closes : access and opportunity in cultural work -- The wages of art : "basic economics" or basic inequality? --...

Reading new currents in consumer culture theory / Eileen Fischer and John F. Sherry, Jr -- Rethinking fundamental notions : selves, others and systems -- Consumers in an age of autonomous and semi-autonomous machines / Russell Belk -- Market value of diversity and ethnicity : a cultural analysis...

Focuses on different regions (including China, Russia, India, and Japan) as well as different institutions and organizations to examine barriers to and effects of globalization on the art market's organizational dynamics and people within the art industry