From culture to creativity and the creative economy: A new agenda for cultural economics

Cultural Economy - which analyses the production, distribution and reception of symbolic contents - is dominated by the economics of welfare. This way of thinking marginalized the role of creativity and closed the corresponding analysis in a very static framework. Face to the need of an economic thought adapted to the creative economy, we should took this opportunity to distillate a more dynamic approach in cultural economics. Three examples are given (artistic markets, artistic skills, and macro-cultural policy) that demonstrate how cultural economics and creative economics should merge for their mutual benefit.