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        Imaginary Economics: Contemporary Artists and the World of Big Money

        Olav Velthuis

        NAi Publishers 2005

        ISBN 9789056624019

      2. 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.

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