Cultural economy cultural analysis and commercial life (SAGE, 2002)
"The chapters in this volume derive from a Workshop on Cultural Economy held at the Open University in January 2000"--Acknowledgements
Includes bibliographical references and index
Machine generated contents note: 1 Economics as interference 21 John Law 2 Symbolic economies: the 'culturalization' of economic knowledge 39 John Allen 3 Capturing markets from the economists 59 Don Slater 4 Work ethics, soft capitalism and the 'turn to life' 78 Paul Heelas 5 From Holloway to Hollywood: happiness at work in the new cultural economy? 97 Angela McRobbie 6 Identities and industries: the cultural formation of aesthetic economies 115 Keith Negus 7 Re-imagining the ad agency: the cultural connotations of economic forms 132 Sean Nixon 8 Advertising, persuasion and the culture/economy dualism 148 Liz McFall 9 The unintended political economy 166 Daniel Miller 10 Production, consumption and 'cultural economy' 185 Alan Warde 11 Performing cultures in the new economy 201 Nigel Thrift
As terms like corporate culture, knowledge economy and market culture pass into the mainstream language, the contributors to this study explore the manner in which markets and organisations are represented in today's society