An introduction to Volume 2 of the book ‘The Creation of Value by Living Labour: A Normative and Empirical Study’. By Cheng Enfu, Wang Guijin and Zhu Kui, vol. 2. London and Istanbul: Canut Press. 2018.
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This two-volume book, by Cheng Enfu, Wang Guijin and Zhu Kui, translated by Sun Yexia and edited with introductions by Alan Freeman, is an indispensible read for those who wish to understand China’s economic miracle and the thinking behind it.
Volume 1 on Mental labour and China’s economy:
Volume 2 on Marx’s theory of living labour:
In the summer of 2015 I delivered this paper, written by my father Chris Freeman, at the University della Tuscia, where I was working at the time. The University had invited Chris to deliver a memorial lecture on Schumpeter. He spent a lot of time writing it, but was beginning to experience problems with blood pressure; his doctor advised him not to take the flight and I gave it in his place.
This is Alan Freeman’s introduction to Chris Freeman’s paper on Schumpeter
This landmark paper set out the case for a rigorous classification of creative industries and occupations that became the basis for the creative industry statistics of the UK’s Department of Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS), which has since become a world standard. It resulted from a collaboration between Hasan Bakhshi of the UK think tank NESTA, Alan Freeman at the Greater London Authority, and Peter Higgs of Queensland University of Technology.
The report benchmarks London’s cultural offer against four other world cities: Paris, New York, Tokyo and Shanghai and is the first comprehensive such undertaking compiled according to international standards. It was the progenitor of the full-fledged World Cities Cultural Forum which now benchmarks 42 world cities and has held an annual forum engaging their cultural leaderships since 2012.
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