Manual de Economia da Cultura e Industrias Criativas: Fundamentos e Evidencias: (Volume I)

Portuguese is spoken across nine countries by more than 260 million people, yet much of the most influential scholarship in cultural economics circulates primarily in English. This three-volume handbook addresses that gap by disseminating Global North critical mass to Lusophone audiences while bringing Global South evidence, cases and policy learning back into the global conversation.
Volume I (“Foundations and Evidence”) reconstructs the dialogue between culture and economy, tracing key traditions in political economy and cultural policy, and assembling quantitative and qualitative evidence on value creation, the art market, governance, wellbeing and development. A historical timeline situates concepts and controversies, clarifying how measurement choices shape what (and who) counts.
Volume II (“Public Policies, Evidence and Models”) maps comparative frameworks and instruments across regions—including Latin America, Africa, Europe, the United Kingdom, the United States and China—showing how institutional design, financing, regulation, and data systems drive divergent outcomes. It distils lessons into adoptable policy architectures and accountability tools for ministries, cities and sector bodies.
Volume III (“Emerging Themes and Trends”) examines how innovation—often tacit and place-based—reshapes production, distribution and labour in the creative economy, from platform dynamics and IP regimes to skills, clustering and inclusion. It translates frontier debates into practical models that can be tested and scaled.
Together, the volumes offer an integrated resource for students, practitioners and policymakers. The contribution is distinctive in scope (cross-regional synthesis in Portuguese), purpose (policy-ready frameworks) and method (triangulating theory, comparative data and practice). By bridging languages, geographies and disciplines, the collection advances a shared vocabulary and evidence base for building more inclusive, sustainable creative economies.