Machine generated contents note: A new era of the global economy -- Using joy products -- The role of the Arts -- The plan -- 1. A framework of creative irritation -- Creative irritations between plays of value -- Economy and art -- plays of value -- A very brief and European history around plays of value -- Irritations between plays of value -- Art scenes and experience goods markets -- literature in connected fields -- Art: Autonomous dances of meaning -- New information in markets -- Art in the creative economy -- The view from the history of economy, arts, and "culture" -- Determining the parameters of search -- pt. I Economic responses to artistic invention -- 2. Creating markets for experience goods: artistic emergence and commercial spread of Linear Perspective, 1425 -- 1680 -- Linear Perspective and its economic impact in Italy between 1425 and 1510 -- The Brunelleschi Circle, 1425 -- 1435 -- The visual arts and their markets -- Perspective treatises and their markets. Perspective, architecture, and the building market -- Technical illustrations and their markets -- Maps, navigation, and the discovery of riches -- The spread of perspective instruction, 1510 -- 1600 -- Paintings and prints, their treatises, and their markets -- Architecture: churches, palaces, villas, and gardens -- Technical illustrations -- Benefits from a common medium, 1600 -- 1680 -- Spatial illusions in prints and paintings -- Streets, places, and gardens -- Sketching the magnitude of impact -- New products -- Representations in religion, politics, and science -- Mental skills of agents -- Back to the irritation hypothesis -- 3. Painted conversations: shaping taste for England's consumer revolution, 1730 -- 1760 -- Painted politeness and economic growth -- The larger pattern of the politeness game -- The role of visual artworks in the fabrication of politeness -- Social valuation in visual environments -- Visual statements in four kinds of space -- Conversation pieces in townhouses -- Conversation pieces in assembly rooms -- Conversation pieces in pleasure gardens -- Satirical prints, circulated in public spaces -- Looking at the evidence. 4. Joy in repetition: translating artworks into experience goods, 1955 -- 1965 -- The Flowers game -- The contemporary situation -- The original event -- The two translations -- The view from above -- The Seagram game -- The contemporary situation -- The original event -- The two translations -- The view from above -- The games compared -- pt. II Artistic responses to economic change -- 5. Silent narratives of assertion, 1430 -- 1600 -- The banker as saint: Petrus Christus' Goldsmith in His Shop (1449) -- Economic context and artistic occasion -- Invention -- Alterations of the object -- Effects -- About bribes and alms: Pieter Aertsen's Meat Stall with the Holy Family (1551) -- Economic context and artistic occasion -- Invention -- Alterations of the object -- Effects -- Expressions of a new social configuration -- 6. Entertaining the modern self, 1720 -- 1890 -- Idle clients and joyful goods: Antoine Watteau's Shopsign of Gersaint (1720) -- Economic context and artistic occasion -- Invention -- Effects -- Red triangles and rectangular hats: Edouard Manet's Bar at the Folies-Bergere (1882) -- Economic context and artistic occasion -- Invention -- Effects -- Expressions of a new social configuration. 7. Intentional entanglements, 1960 -- 2010 -- Shopping patterns: Andreas Gursky's 99 Cent and 99 Cent II (1999 -- 2001) -- Economic context and artistic occasion -- Invention -- Effects -- Shopping within art: Takashi Murakami's Vuitton Shop (2007 -- 2008) -- Economic context and artistic occasion -- Invention -- Effects -- Expressions of a new social configuration -- Conclusions for Part II -- 8. More moves, as the joyful economy continues to rise -- Widening the scope -- Three periods of evolutionary growth -- Combining images, words, and sounds -- From moves to mutual interventions -- Interventions across the range of plays of value.