| Description |
ix, 243 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Culture, representation and identities |
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Culture, representation, and identities.
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| Contents |
Cultural economy: An introduction / Paul du Gay and Michael Pryke -- 1. Economics as interference / John Law -- 2. Symbolic economies: the 'culturalization' of economic knowledge / John Allen -- 3. Capturing markets from the economists / Don Slater -- 4. Work ethics, soft capitalism and the 'turn to life' / Paul Heelas -- 5. From Holloway to Hollywood: happiness at work in the new cultural economy? / Angela McRobbie -- 6. Identities and industries: the cultural formation of aesthetic economies / Keith Negus -- 7. Re-imagining the ad agency: the cultural connotations of economic forms / Sean Nixon -- 8. Advertising, persuasion and the culture/economy dualism / Liz McFall -- 9. The unintended political economy / Daniel Miller -- 10. Production, consumption and 'cultural economy' / Alan Warde -- 11. Performing cultures in the new economy / Nigel Thrift |
| Summary |
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 |
| Notes |
"The chapters in this volume derive from a Workshop on Cultural Economy held at the Open University in January 2000"--Acknowledgements |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Economics -- Sociological aspects.
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Culture -- Economic aspects -- Congresses.
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Economics -- Sociological aspects -- Congresses.
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Author |
Du Gay, Paul.
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Pryke, Michael, 1955-
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| LC no. |
2002283355 |
| ISBN |
0761959920 |
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0761959939 paperback |
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