General references:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_economics
Throsby, David. Economics and Culture, Cambridge University Press, 2000.
Throsby, David. The Economics of Cultural Policy, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2010.
Throsby, David. "The Production and Consumption of the Arts: A View of Cultural Economics", Journal of Economic Literature, Vol. XXXII, 1994, pp. 1–29
Cooper et als , Tourism, Principles and practice, Prentice Hall, 2007
Selected Chapters from
Throsby, David and V. A. Ginsburgh (eds). Handbook of the Economics of Art and Culture, Vol. 1, North-Holland, 2014:
Introduction
Chpt 5,Defining cultural and artistic goods
Chpt 6, value and valuation
Chpt 11, the arts in the new economy
Chpt 12, culture and economic performance
Chpt 13, culture and economic development
Chpt 28, cultural heritage: economic analysis and public policy
Chpt 30, culture in the urban and regional development
Chpt 31, cultural districts and their role in developed and developing countries
Further readings
http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/975081468244550798/pdf/multi-p...
Stiglitz J.E., and Shahid Yusuf, Rethinking the East Asian Miracle, Published: June 2001 ISBN: 978-0-19-521600-4 http://dx.doi.org/10.1596/0-1952-1600-8, http://elibrary.worldbank.org/doi/pdf/10.1596/0-1952-1600-8
Becattini, Bellandi, de Ottati, Sforzi (2003), From industrial districts to local development. An itinerary of research, Edgar Elgar
Porter (1998), “Clusters and the new economics of competition”, Harvard Business School,
Asheim, (1996), “Industrial districts as “learning regions”, European Planning Studies
Magnaghi, 1999 il progetto locale