Introduction

Abstract

This is a collection of papers from the 6th International Conference on Cultural Economics held in Umeå, Sweden in June, 1990. The volume represents an attempt to view cultural economics as a field of applied economics. In the past, the proceedings of International Conferences of the Association for Cultural Economics have been published in toto, all the papers being included whatever their merit or orientation. Here a selection has been mainly of papers which use the tools of economic analysis to investigate cultural matters; mainly, but not exclusively. Papers by non-economists have been included which deal with issues of interest to economists. Whatever justification is used as a basis for making it, though, any selection is personal and to some extent arbitrary.