After The Crunch
23.08.09 LITERATURE: After years of global recession, looking into the toolbox - is creativity the only tool we have left? NCN recommends After The Crunch by Creative & Cultural Skills and the British Council. Visit the website and join the debate about what kind of world you want – After The Crunch.
"In the last ten years the creative industries have become one of the most fashionable and talked-about components of the global economy. Are they just froth on the surface of exuberant capitalism, about to be blown away by global recession, or are they a paradigm for a new networked future in which quality rather than quantity will become the ultimate arbiter of success in a world whose population is growing but whose resources are diminishing? In this book, 42 artists, entrepreneurs, commentators, analysts, policy-makers, policy-sceptics, academics, financiers – and citizens – set out their hopes and fears for the future".