Chapter 20 Rockonomics: The Economics of Popular Music

Handbook of the Economics of Art and Culture

Volumn 1, Issue , 2006, Pages 667-719

  Connolly, Marie ^a   Krueger, Alan B ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

concerts; rockonomics; superstars

Indexed keywords

EID: 66049096876     PISSN: 15740676     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S1574-0676(06)01020-9     Document Type: Review

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