Introduction.- The Individual Choice-Public Choice Perspective and Cultural Economics.- Welfare Economics and Public Policy: A Re-examination.- Public Choice, Economics of Institutions and the Italian School of Public Finance.- Political Economy of Broadcasting: the Legacy of the Peacock Report on Financing the BBC.- The Public Spending for Culture in the Face of Decentralization Processes and Economic Recession: the Case of Italy.- Performance Rights in Music: Some Perspectives from Economics, Law and History.- Copyright and Music Publishing in the UK.- The Composer in the Market Place Revisited: the Economics of Music Composition Today.- Market Options and Public Action for Opera.- Towards More Innovative Museums.- Technological Perspectives for Cultural Heritage.- Archaeological Cultural Heritage: A Consideration of Loss by Smuggling, Conflict or War.- Theory and practice of cultural heritage policy.- On Judging Art and Wine.- Afterword.