By Nina Bandelj, Frederick Wherry (eds.)

Symbolic assets have an effect on social, cultural, and financial improvement. the worth of being "Made in the USA" or "Made in Italy," for instance, relies not just at the fabric benefits every one position bargains but additionally at the symbolic assets embedded in these areas of construction. Drawing on case reviews that variety from the vineyards of South Africa and the textiles of Thailand to the Mundo Maya in Latin the US and vacationer locations in Tuscany, this quantity examines a few of the varieties that cultural wealth takes, the tactics all in favour of its development, and the methods it really is deployed.

Leading students from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds study how symbolic assets and cultural understandings aid enterprises and areas advance. via a considerate research of present- day instances, in addition to ancient advancements, The Cultural Wealth of Nations bargains a thrilling new substitute to plain financial motives concerning the wealth and poverty of nations.

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6 Distribution of global chocolate trade (2007). source: Elaborated from Comtrade (2011) than 85 percent of global trade in chocolates but only about a third of that in cocoa (and much of that is actually a reshipment of imported goods). 6). A similar pattern characterizes global commerce in tobacco. Developed countries account for roughly 20 percent of global trade in tobacco but 65 percent of the trade in cigarettes. For the developing world, the ratio is reversed. In both of these cases, the very significant value-added premium that comes from processing the raw material and then packaging and marketing the finished product tends to be concentrated in the already wealthy countries.

Indeed, media imperialism scholars have argued that the United States lies at the core of the design and production of popular culture items such as music, movies, and TV (for review see Crane 2002). For example, the various Crime Scene Investigation (CSI) programs are syndicated to 200 markets, making CSI the most watched drama show in the world in 2010 (TV by the Numbers 2010). Even when noncore countries are not purchasing the actual product, they nonetheless are influenced by the product’s concepts.

The attempts to negotiate place are not merely concerns with status position but also a keen (though sometimes unrecognized) effort to establish the character of place and the externally recognizable qualities of a nation’s people. The portrayal of market actors as using symbols strategically for status display or to maintain dominance ignores the importance of symbols and meanings for motivating action and for making sense of why a country should be proud that it is known for how well its people make a particular product, develop particular forms of designs, or continue to provide access to artworks and places that are universally valued (for example, Alexander 2003; Wherry 2008b).

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