Economics of culture : new aspects and new trends / Oscar Alfranca Burriel, editor.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The "miracle" of wedding at Cana and the non-use value of a cultural landscape / (Luis Maldonado Rius, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain) -- The role of culture in the economy of the European countries / (Víctor M. González Sánchez and Susana de los Ríos Sastre, National University of Distance Education, Madrid, Spain, and others) -- Proposal for a vcit model applied to family SMEs. Some thoughts in the first global crisis / (José Manuel Saiz-Álvarez and David Cohén Wahnón, Nebrija University, Madrid, Spain, and others) -- Accountability in culture : the Italian experience / (Gina Rossi and Chiara Leardini, University of Udine, Italy, and others) -- Specific economic features of the artistic-cultural sector / (Cristina Nardi Spiller, University of Verona, Italy) -- New paths for local development : the role of cultural districts / (Paola Savi, University of Verona, Italy) -- The efficiency of the education sector in michoacan, 2000-2009 / (J. Refugio Rodríguez Velázquez, Rodrigo Gómez Monge, Hilda R. Guerrero García Rojas and Luis Alberto Seguí Amórtegui, Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo, Spain, and others) -- Competition among cultures in international development aid. A case study of entrepreneurship in Tanzania / (Jordi Bacaria and Josep M. Coll, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain) -- The role of peace culture on economic performance / (Alberto Colino, Marta Peris-Ortiz and Carlos Rueda-Armengot, Universidad Antonio de Nebrija, Madrid, Spain, and others) -- Social capital, institutions and economic policy / (Maria-Soledad Castaño Martínez, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain) -- The economics of the Olympic Games: the case of Barcelona 1992 / (Joan Pasqual, Francesc Trillas and Hugo Fuentes, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain, and others) -- Reading habits in Spain and the role of environmental cultural resources / (Nela Filimon, Universitat de Girona, Spain) -- Cultural landscapes in Periurban territories. The case of Baix Llobregat (Spain) / (Luis Maldonado, Oscar Alfranca and Xavier Recasens, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain).

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The aim of this book is to incorporate the main idea that culture is directly related to economic activity, in economic analysis, from a multidisciplinary perspective. From this very first perception, several difficulties appear. First of them are related to the use of rigorous and testable methodologies that could allow the quantification of the value of an artistic work, and even the consideration of what an artistic work could be. In the book, we also try to present these problems from an extensive perception, in order to take into account, not only aspects strictly related to economics, bu.

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