The Blackwell Cultural Economy Reader

This Reader brings together the exciting and innovative work that has appeared in the last 10 years in the growing field of cultural economy.

• Brings together exciting and innovative work from the last ten years in the emerging field of cultural economy.
  
• Contains a substantial introduction by the editors on the main strands and history of the cultural economy approach.
  
• Shows how the pursuit of prosperity always involves multiple and hybrid orderings that cannot be reduced to either the terms culture or economy.
  
• Shows that thinking about cultural economy is both a substantive task and a valuable contribution to knowledge.
  
• Material is organised around different links in the value chain.