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Editorial: Geography and the Cultural Economy
Copenhagen Business School, Denmark.
University of California, Los Angeles, USA.
Aalborg University, Denmark.
email <mark@cbs.dk>
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One of the more remarkable shifts in the nature and structure of economic activity over the last few decades has been the insistent rise of sectors focused on the production of cultural outputs ranging from purely experiential items like film and recorded music on the one hand to design-intensive artefacts like jewellery and clothing on the other hand. These sectors constitute the core of what is increasingly referred to as the cultural economy or creative economy (Caves, 2000; Throsby, 2001; Hesmondhalgh, 2002). Indeed, the cultural economy can be said to extend well beyond this central core, for one of the distinctive features of contemporary capitalism is the ever-intensifying efforts of producers to imbue all manner of otherwise utilitarian
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