ECONOMIC ASPECTS OF THE CULTURAL SECTOR IN POLAND

The purpose of this article is to present the economic aspects of the cultural and creative industries and the current levels of expenditure from national budget, local authorities and households on culture in Poland. Its first part discusses the relationship between economics and culture, to continue with the economic analysis of the cultural sector and creative industries as well as of the expenditures of the national budget, local authorities and households on culture, followed by a comparison of the situation in Poland with that in other countries. The analysis was developed on the basis of data published by the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, data from the 2011 Household Budgets Survey, the Central Statistical Office of Poland, the Eurostat and the Polish report on the economic significance of cultural sector (Lewandowski et al., 2010).