A textbook of cultural economics This book is written as an introduction to cultural economics; it assumes no knowledge of economics even of supply and demand and each economic concept is explained as it is introduced in the text. The book represents my kind of cultural economics and my motive for writing this book is to expand cultural economics beyond its earlier scope to include the creative industries and the issues of copyright law that relate to them. Machine generated contents note: Part I. General Issues in Cultural Economics: 1. Introduction to cultural economics; 2. Economic profile of the cultural sector; 3. Economic organisation of markets in the creative industries; 4. The digital creative economy; 5. Production costs and supply of cultural goods; 6. Consumption participation and demand for cultural goods and services; 7. Welfare economics and public finance; Part II. The Traditional Arts and Heritage: 8. Economics of the performing arts; 9. Economics of museums and heritage; 10. Economics of festivals cities of culture creative cities and cultural tourism; 11. Economic evaluation cultural policy; Part III. Artists Labour Markets and Copyright: 12. Economics of artists labour markets; 13. Economics of copyright; Part IV. The Creative Industries: 14. Economics of creative industries; 15. Economics of the music industry; 16. Economics of the film industry; 17. Economics of videogames; 18. Economics of broadcasting; 19. Economics of book publishing; Part V. Conclusion: 20. Conclusion.