Talking Prices: Symbolic Meanings of Prices on the Market for Contemporary Art

By O. Velthuis. 2005

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Economization, part 1: shifting attention from the economy towards processes of economization (2009, background): “Moreover, the absence of a rigid and strict definition of the economy has opened up new sites of investigation such as technical innovation, as well as the numerous configurations of relationships that exist between markets, scientific research and public policies (Powell & Brantley, 1993; Barry & S”
Moral Views of Market Society (2007, background): “For instance, Velthuis (2005) provides a detailed study of the highly symbolic nature of prices in the art market.”
Knowledge and valuation in markets (2009, background): “Today, not only fashion garment markets (Crane and Bovone 2006), art markets (Velthuis 2005), and markets for photographers (Aspers 2005) could be seen as “status” markets, but also markets for cars, furniture, art, and many other “markets” could be analyzed using this idea.”
Economization, part 2: a research programme for the study of markets (2010, background): “Another example is the notion of pricing scripts proposed by Velthuis (2005) for the art market, also an interesting type of formula. Zbaracki and Bergen’s (2008) detailed empirical study of price adjustments in a Midwest manufacturer convincingly shows how”