While the literature on 'cultural industries' was usually more concerned with specific industries, their sizes, employment and export potential, geographical distribution and internal industrial structure (e.g. Pratt 1997; Hesmondhalgh 1998; Banks et al 2000), literature on the 'cultural economy' engaged at a more theoretical level with the relationship between 'the economic' and 'the cultural' (e.g. du Gay and Pryke 2002; Barnes 2005).