The book examines the contemporary art system with a broad and systematic approach, through the application of models of microeconomics and industrial organizat

Why would a smart New York investment banker pay $12 million for the decaying, stuffed carcass of a shark? By what alchemy does Jackson Pollock's drip painting

Analysis of Latin America's economy focusing on development, covering the colonial roots of inequality, boom and bust cycles, labor markets, and fiscal and mone

A look at the contemporary art market and the economics and psychology that first produced a market crash, and then two years later resulted in astronomical pri

Art today is defined by its relationship to money as never before. Prices of living artists' works have been driven to unprecedented heights, conventional bound