Over the last 30 or 40 years a substantial literature has grown up in which the tools of economic theory and analysis have been applied to problems in the arts and culture. Economists who have surveyed the field generally locate the origins of contemporary cultural economics as being in 1966,...

This volume emphasizes the economic aspects of art and culture, a relatively new field that poses inherent problems for economics, with its quantitative concepts and tools. Building bridges across disciplines such as management, art history, art philosophy, sociology, and law, editors Victor...

A long-standing debate in the economics of art and culture is concerned with the adequacy or otherwise of the theory of value in economics to capture a full representation of the value of cultural phenomena. At a theoretical level it has been proposed that a distinct form of value is embodied in...

Die zentrale Bedeutung der Marke spiegelt sich in einem kaum mehr überschaubaren Angebot an Instrumenten zur Optimierung der Markenführung wider. Anita Zednik und Andreas Strebinger untersuchen 48 Marken-Modelle der wichtigsten Berater, Marktforschungsinstitute und Werbeagenturen im...