By Ellen Loots and Rūta Skujiņa Work in the cultural industry has been labelled ‘affective labour’: many workers experience a strong affective attachment to arts and culture, originating and resulting…
By Anna Kukla‑Gryz, Joanna Tyrowicz, Michał Krawczyk Digital piracy is an interesting case of an extremely common activity with a rather shady ethical and legal status. One way of understanding this paradox is…
By Nora Elena Espinal-Monsalve, Andrey David Ramos-Ramírez y Luz Yadira Gómez-Hernández The relationship between cultural reproduction and cultural consumption can be framed from the theory of social reproduction of Bourdieu…
By Silvia Cerisola The idea that cultural heritage may have a positive impact on economic development has been spreading for the last twenty years. However, its contribution is often just…
By Jonathan Daniel Gómez‐Zapata, Luis César Herrero‐Prieto, and Beatriz Rodríguez‐Prado Music is linked to human senses and emotions and is one of the most important manifestations of mankind’s creativity as…
By Ana Flávia Machado, Débora Freire, Rodrigo Cavalcante Michel, Gabriel Vaz de Melo, and Alice Demattos Guimarães The Covid-19 global pandemic has drastically changed routines in worldwide. Given the high…
By Naomi Oosterman In the cold winter’s night of 9 to 10 January 2005, criminals left a devastating scene at the Westfries Museum in Hoorn, the Netherlands. Glass doors were…
By Trine Bille, Anna Mignosa and Ruth Towse Is busking a source of income? What is the role of copyright for creators and performers? Can philanthropy and crowdfunding substitute the…
By Marie Ballarini In France, museums are mainly public and almost all depend on state subsidies (private museums included). Faced with the stagnation of the latter, or even their substantial…
The organisers of the 21st International Conference on Cultural Economics #ACEI2020 regretfully have to postpone the meeting in 2020 due to COVID-19. It is expected that the next cultural economics…
By Pawan V. Bhansing and Arjo Klamer Public broadcasters are in heavy weather because of changes in the media landscape. It is precisely these circumstances that make it important to…
By The Editorial Board The international symposium organised by LabEx ICCA on the topic of “Cultural Policies. What’s new?” took place 30 – 31 January 2020 in Paris. Organised in…
By Luis César Herrero-Prieto Those of us who practise and study in the field of cultural economics often find ourselves being called ‘the happy few’. It is true that there…
By Elisa Salvador Cultural Festivals are one of the most diffused examples of living production in all the fields of cultural and creative industries, attracting increasing attention in recent years….
By Andrej Srakar and Marilena Vecco The estimation of the economic effects of cultural events is a topic that has stirred numerous debates in cultural economics. Although economic impact studies…
By Hans Abbing Respect for art is high, also among those who do not consume serious art, though subsidy cuts testify of a decreasing respect for the “serious arts”. In…