Università Roma Tre

The course is about cultural and creative industries and organizations, and institutions involved in their regulation. The course has an applied approach and learning objectives focused on the development of professional abilities (statistical sources, methodologies for the analysis of demand, business and organizational models, methodologies for impact evaluation of projects and programs, Italian and International case studies). The first part of the course introduces at international statistical standards for the estimation of the economic dimension of the sector. The second part is dedicated to the demands for cultural and creative goods and services arising from the various economic subjects (households, firms, public sector, external subjects), with an analysis of Italian and International data and an illustration of the main interpretative models suggested by economic literature. In the third part the focus shifts on the side of supply, with the study of labor markets for cultural and creative occupations and business models of cultural and creative activities, and with the analysis of the different economics activities, and corresponding markets, for cultural and creative products: cultural heritage, museums and cultural sites, arts markets and contemporary art, performing arts, cultural industries (publishing, broadcasting, film and audiovisual, music, video games). In the fourth part we will study the relations between culture and tourism, those between culture and urban and regional development, the methods for evaluation of actions (policies, programs, projects) in the cultural field, the public policies for culture and cultural and creative industries, with attention to challenges (opportunities and risks) coming from the digital technological revolution and the impact of the pandemic crisis.

Françoise Benhamou, Economia della cultura, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2020.
Marco Causi, Economia della cultura e delle industrie culturali e creative. Un'introduzione, Roma, Edizioni Pigreco, 2022.
Reading list suggested during the classes and available on the Moodle page of the course.