{"product_id":"creative-industries-9780674008083","title":"Creative Industries","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDrawing on industrial economics and contract theory, Caves explores the organization of creative industries, including visual and performing arts, movies, theater, sound recordings, and book publishing. In each, artistic inputs are combined with humdrum inputs. But Caves finds the deals bringing these inputs together are inherently problematic.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eCreative Industries\u003c\/i\u003e will appeal to the growing community of social scientists and humanists who are interested in and write about cultural policy. Even the economics-averse among them will have no excuse to avoid this gracefully written volume. It promises to be a much-needed touchstone for work in cultural economics, the sociology of art and culture, and the interdisciplinary field of arts and cultural policy analysis. -- Paul DiMaggio, Professor of Sociology, Princeton University\u003cbr\u003e[Caves] uses contract and industrial-organization theory to throw light on how and why the industries producing cultural goods and services--from literature to film, from rock music to opera--work as they do...Caves does not engage issues of ideology, nor of the political or economic importance of the arts, but simply sees the creative industries as fascinating areas of economic activity which have been largely neglected by economists...By documenting a wide range of commercial interactions across the creative industries, this comprehensive and immensely readable book shows persuasively that economic theory can help us understand the sheer business of making art happen. -- David Throsby * Times Literary Supplement *\u003cbr\u003eRichard Caves has filled a very large gap: until now virtually no one has addressed the economic organization of the arts and culture.  This is a highly accessible work, in which huge volumes of scholarly and popular work have been uncovered, absorbed and assimilated in the finished product.\u003ci\u003eCreative Industries\u003c\/i\u003e  is a splendid book. -- Richard Netzer, Professor of Economics and Public Administration, Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, New York University\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eCreative Industries\u003c\/i\u003e explores the economics of the arts in exacting detail. With great skill and originality, Caves has analysed the economic forces operating in music, book publishing, painting, the theatre and movies. -- Winston Fletcher * Times Higher Education Supplement *\u003cbr\u003eCaves presents an excellent and readable discussion of the economics and organization of the creative arts industry…Using an enormous amount of qualitative information, Caves combines the theory of contracts (a new development) with the economics of industrial organization to explain institutional arrangements (the contractual strategies of the market mediators) between artists (authors, actors, performers) and consumers. -- R. A. Miller * CHOICE *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface    Introduction: Economic Properties of Creative Activities    Part I: Supplying Simple Creative Goods   1. Artists as Apprentices   2. Artists, Dealers, and Deals   3. Artist and Gatekeeper: Trade Books, Popular Records, and Classical Music   4. Artists, Starving and Well-Fed    Part II: Supplying Complex Creative Goods   5. The Hollywood Studios Disintegrate   6. Contracts for Creative Products: Films and Plays   7. Guilds, Unions, and Faulty Contracts   8. The Nurture of Ten-Ton Turkeys   9. Creative Products Go to Market: Books and Records   10. Creative Products Go to Market: Films    Part III: Demand for Creative Goods   11. Buffs, Buzz, and Educated Tastes   12. Consumers, Critics, and Certifiers   13. Innovation, Fads, and Fashions    Part IV: Cost Conundrums   14. Covering High Fixed Costs   15. Donor-Supported Nonprofit Organizations in the Performing Arts   16. Cost Disease and Its Analgesics    Part V: The Test of Time    17. Durable Creative Goods: Rents Pursued through Time and Space    18. Payola    19. Organizing to Collect Rents: Music Copyrights    20. Entertainment Conglomerates and the Quest for Rents    21. Filtering and Storing Durable Creative Goods: Visual Arts    22. New versus Old Art: Boulez Meets Beethoven    Epilogue    Notes    Index","brand":"Harvard University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403514913111,"sku":"9780674008083","price":30.56,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780674008083.jpg?v=1730483697","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/creative-industries-9780674008083","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}