Cultural Economics: University Textbook for Cultural Industry Management

Author: Hu Huilin
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Publish Date: 2006-07-01
Features: Cultural economy is a significant form and phenomenon of human social development, and one of the fundamental driving forces behind it. Achieving a transformation in the mode of economic growth and promoting the economic aspect of cultural development through cultural economy is a common cultural and economic behavior in modern society. Studying the basic laws of cultural economic movement, revealing the role and significance of cultural economy in modern social progress and development, enriching the theoretical and policy systems of culture and economy, and promoting the establishment of new social and cultural models as well as national economic development models by the Central Propaganda Department—cultural economics is increasingly emerging as a new interdisciplinary field and a fresh scientific domain. This book was written based on years of teaching practice in the Cultural Management program at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. After being published by Shanghai Jiao Tong University Press in 1996, it was adopted as a textbook by cultural management programs and relevant departments in many universities across China. At the time of the development of the "21st Century Cultural Management Series Textbooks," the authors revised and rewrote Chapters 3, 4, 5, 6, 9, and 10.