Ruth Towse

Ruth Towse FRSA is a British economist and Professor of Economics of Creative Industries at Bournemouth University and Professor Emerita at Erasmus University, Rotterdam. A leading authority in cultural economics with a particular emphasis on the economics of media and copyright, she has taught in UK, the Netherlands, Italy and Thailand universities. She was married to Mark Blaug.

Education

Towse obtained a BA (Hons) in Political Economy from Reading University in 1964, then proceeding to obtain a MSc in Economics from the London School of Economics and Political Science in 1966. She gained a PhD in Economics from Erasmus University, Rotterdam in 2000.[1]

Career

She was Joint Editor of the Journal of Cultural Economics from 1993 to 2002. She has served as the President of the Association for Cultural Economics International from 2006 to 2008. She is a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

Selected publications

Edited books
  • Towse, Ruth, ed. (2011). A handbook of cultural economics. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing. doi:10.4337/9780857930576. ISBN 9781848448872.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  • Towse, Ruth; Ilde Rizzo, eds. (2002). The Economics of Heritage: A Study in the Political Economy of Culture in Sicily. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing. ISBN 9781843760412.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  • Towse, Ruth, ed. (2002). Copyright in the Cultural Industries. Edward Elgar Publishing. doi:10.4337/9781843765417. ISBN 9781840646610.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)

Authored books
  • Towse, Ruth (2001). Creativity, Incentive and Reward: An Economic Analysis of Copyright and Culture in the Information Age. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing. doi:10.4337/9781843767459. ISBN 9781840642544.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  • Towse, Ruth (2014). Advanced Introduction to Cultural Economics. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing. ISBN 9781781954904.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)

Journal articles

References
  1. "Professor Ruth Towse - Bournemouth University Staff Profile Pages". Retrieved December 6, 2017.
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