Banks, M. (2018) Creative economies of tomorrow? Limits to growth and the uncertain future. Cultural Trends, 27(5), pp. 367-380. (doi: 10.1080/09548963.2018.1534720)
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Abstract
This article contributes to emerging critiques of UK creative economy policy by challenging the unremitting celebration of “growth” as the primary indicator of economic success. The ecological fallacies of “exclusive” growth and the social and environmental injustices that “creative growth” has occasioned are initially discussed – and a range of possible other understandings of growth introduced. The article concludes that under conditions of real economic stagnation and incipient environmental crisis, growth needs to be made limited, but also more fully socialised in a dual sense; made more evenly and equitably redistributed in terms of benefits and rewards, as well as re-conceived in terms that afford greater priority to non-economic values and human prosperity indicators.
Item Type: | Articles |
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Status: | Published |
Refereed: | Yes |
Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: | Banks, Professor Mark |
Authors: | Banks, M. |
College/School: | College of Arts & Humanities > School of Culture and Creative Arts > Theatre Film and TV Studies |
Journal Name: | Cultural Trends |
Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
ISSN: | 0954-8963 |
ISSN (Online): | 1469-3690 |
Published Online: | 26 November 2018 |
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