This Conference seeks to assess where the various debates about culture and economy and cultural economy have got to, and to explore where they may be going in the future. Discussion and debate will be structured around parallel streams of themed session papers as well as plenaries that address the following themes: * Finance and Financialisation * Consumer Culture, Branding and Marketing * New Spirits of Capitalism: materiality, ethics and identities * Theorising Culture, Economy and Cultural Economy * The Cultural Economy of Management, Managerialism and New * Organisational Elites * Difference, Money and Borders