Talking Prices: Symbolic Meanings of Prices on the Market for Contemporary Art
Olav Velthuis
Princeton: Princeton University Press 2007
ISBN 9780691134031
Author is a sociologist and anthropologist whose work in the field of ‘economic sociology’ focuses on the creation of ‘value’ in the contemporary art market, the ‘irrationality’ of art pricing, and the influence of globalization on the art market.