The Warhol Economy: How Fashion, Art, and Music Drive New York City - New Edition

by Elizabeth Currid-Halkett

Book Overview

Which is more important to New York City's economy, the gleaming corporate office--or the grungy rock club that launches the best new bands? If you said "office," think again. In The Warhol Economy, Elizabeth Currid argues that creative industries like fashion, art, and music drive the economy of New York as much as--if not more than--finance, real estate, and law. And these creative industries are fueled by the social life that whirls around...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691138745
• ISBN13: 9780691138749
• Release Date: October 2008
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.0" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

one of the cool kids

Huffingtonpost.com says it best! "Interviews with bold-faced names including designers Diane Von Furstenberg and Zac Posen, musicians The Talking Heads, and club owner of the legendary CBGB's, Hilly Kristal, make The Warhol Economy an engaging cross between the academic and the gossipy-like an intellectualized Page Six of The New York Post."