Cultural Economy

Phrases such as 'corporate culture', 'market culture' and the 'knowledge economy', have now become familiar clarion calls in the world of work. They are calls that have echoed through organizations and markets. Clearly something is happening to the ways markets and organizations are being represented and intervened in and this signals a need to reassess their very constitution. In particular, the once clean divide that placed the economy, dealt with mainly by economists, on one side, and culture, addressed chiefly by those in anthropology, sociology and the other 'cultural sciences', on the other, can no longer hold. This volume presents the work of an international group of academics from a range of disciplines including sociology, media and cultural studies, social anthropology and geography, all of whom are involved not only in thinking 'culture' into the economy but thinking culture and economy together.

ISBN 0761959939   Volumes 1 ISBN13 9780761959939 (What's this?)   Weight (grammes) 364 Publisher SAGE Publications Ltd   Published in London Imprint SAGE Publications Ltd   Series editor Varey, J.E. Format Paperback   Series ISSN 0959-948 Publication date 01 Feb 2002   Series title Culture, Representation and Identity Series Non-book description ix, 243 p. :   Height (mm) 234 Library of Congress 2002283355   Width (mm) 156 DEWEY 306.3   Spine width (mm) 13 DEWEY edition DC21   Academic level Tertiary education Pages 256

		Notes on contributors
		Acknowledgements
		Cultural economy: An introduction by Paul du Gay and Michael Pryke		1
1		Economics as interference by John Law		21
2		Symbolic economies: the 'culturalization' of economic knowledge by John Allen		39
3		Capturing markets from the economists by Don Slater		59
4		Work ethics, soft capitalism and the 'turn to life' by Paul Heelas		78
5		From Holloway to Hollywood: happiness at work in the new cultural economy? by Angela McRobbie		97
6		Identities and industries: the cultural formation of aesthetic economies by Keith Negus		115
7		Re-imagining the ad agency: the cultural connotations of economic forms by Sean Nixon		132
8		Advertising, persuasion and the culture/economy dualism by Liz McFall		148
9		The unintended political economy by Daniel Miller		166
10		Production, consumption and 'cultural economy' by Alan Warde		185
11		Performing cultures in the new economy by Nigel Thrift		201
		Index		235

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