Ruth Towse specialises in cultural economics and the economics of copyright and has published widely on both fields in academic journals and books, including A Textbook of Cultural Economics (Cambridge University Press, 2019) now in its 2nd edition; she recently edited a 3rd edition of a Handbook of Cultural Economics (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2020). She was Joint Editor of the Journal of Cultural Economics from 1993-2002; she was President of the Society for Economic Research in Copyright Issues from 2004-6 and President of the Association for Cultural Economic International (ACEI) from 2006-8. In 2016, she was made Distinguished Fellow of the ACEI.
