The dynamics of auction social interaction and the sale of fine art and antiques
Each year art and antiques worth many billions of pounds are sold at auction. These auctions consist of numerous, intense episodes of social interaction through which the price of goods rapidly escalates until sold on the strike of a hammer. In this book, Christian Heath examines the fine details of...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge
Cambridge University Press
2013
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| Series: | Learning in doing : social, cognitive and computational perspectives
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| Collection: | Cambridge Books Online - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- 1. Auctions: institutional form and interactional organisation
- 2. Orders of bidding
- 3. Trust and the integrity of bids
- 4. Establishing competition: creating an impression of demand
- 5. Bidding and the pursuit of bids
- 6. Remote presence and online participation
- 7. On the strike of the hammer
- 8. Embodied action and the order of markets
- Appendix I. Glossary
- Appendix II. Transcription notation