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Record Nr.

UNINA9910461901603321

Titolo

Cultural economy [[electronic resource] ] : cultural analysis and commercial life / / edited by Paul Du Gay and Michael Pryke

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : SAGE, c2002

ISBN

1-4129-3190-8

1-4462-1844-9

1-4462-2578-X

9786610369652

1-280-36965-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (257 p.)

Collana

Culture, representation and identities

Altri autori (Persone)

Du GayPaul

PrykeMichael <1955->

Disciplina

306.3

Soggetti

Economics - Sociological aspects

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"The chapters in this volume derive from a Workshop on Cultural Economy held at the Open University in January 2000"--Acknowledgements.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgements; Cultural economy: an introduction; Chapter 1 - Economics as interference; Chapter 2 - Symbolic economies: The 'culturalization' of economic knowledge; Chapter 3 - Capturing markets from the economists; Chapter 4 - Work ethics, soft capitalism and the 'turn of life'; Chapter 5 - From Holloway toHollywood: Happiness at work in the new cultural economy?; Chapter 6 - Identities and industries: The Cultural formation of aesthetic economies; Chapter 7 - Re-imaging the ad agency: The cultural connotations of economic forms

Chapter 8 - Advertising, persuasion and the culture/economy dualismChapter 9 - The unintended political economy; Chapter 10 - Production, consumption and 'cultural economy'; Chapter 11 - Performing cultures in the new economy; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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.