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Handmade And Diy: The Cultural Economy In The Digital Age, Benjamin Joshua Shultz Apr 2011

Handmade And Diy: The Cultural Economy In The Digital Age, Benjamin Joshua Shultz

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In recent years there has been growing consensus among academics and policy makers that cultural industries are key drivers of contemporary economic growth. For geographers and economists, the roles of agglomeration and knowledge flows are important factors that sustain the cultural industries. However, existing research focuses overwhelmingly on elite cultural industries in global cities. In addition, there has been little effort to account for new technologies that …