Eduardo de la Fuente is Lecturer in the School of Social and Policy Studies, Flinders University and President of the Research Committee for the Sociology of the Arts of the International Sociological Association. He is the author of Twentieth Century Music and the Question of Modernity (Routledge, 2011) and has a forthcoming book on the Aesthetic Shaping of Society (Palgrave-Macmillan).Peter Murphy is Professor of Creative Arts and Social Aesthetics at James Cook University. He is the author of The Collective Imagination (Ashgate, 2012) and Civic Justice (Humanity Books, 2001), and co-author of Dialectic of Romanticism (Continuum, 2004), Imagination (Peter Lang 2010), Global Creation (Peter Lang 2010), and Creativity and the Global Knowledge Economy (Peter Lang 2009).

• Introduction de la Fuente and MurphyChapter One: From the Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism to the Creative Economy: Reflections on the New Spirit of Art and Capitalism David RobertsChapter Two: The Artefacts of Capitalism and the Objecthood of their Aesthetics Vrasidas KaralisChapter Three: The Aesthetic Spirit of Modern Capitalism Peter Murphy Chapter Four: The Visual Experience Economy: What Kind of Economics?On the Topologies of Aesthetic Capitalism Anders MichelsenChapter Five: Aesthetic Capital: Hermeneutic Speculation, Economic Themes, and the Dismal Science Ken FriedmanChapter Six: The Social Negotiation of Aesthetics and Organisational Democracy Antonio StratiChapter Seven: Neo-Modernism: Architecture in the Age of Aesthetic Capitalism Eduardo de la FuenteChapter Eight: The Aesthetics of Fiscal Consolidation Carlo TognatoChapter Nine: The Innovative Role of Art in the Time of the Absence of Myth Dominique Bouchet