Cultural economy : cultural analysis and commercial life / edited by Paul du Gay and Michael Pryke.

"The chapters in this volume derive from a Workshop on Cultural Economy held at the Open University in January 2000"--Acknowledgements.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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