Contents: 1. Why do we need a cultural economics? History and development of the field / Samuel Cameron -- 2. Contemporary challenges to cultural economics / Samuel Cameron -- 3. Individual choice behaviour / Samuel Cameron -- 4. Flexible digital supply behaviour / Christian Peukert -- 5....

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...