Auctions: The Social Construction of Value - Softcover

Smith, Charles W.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0520072014 ISBN 13: 9780520072015

Publisher: University of California Press, 1990

Synopsis

Charles W. Smith. xii, 225 p. Light wear. The spine is sunned. The corners of some of the pages have been folded down. Page block very faintly grubby. Binding tight and square, contents clean and unmarked.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

"From fish to fine art, this book covers the auction business in broad scope and fascinating detail. Must reading for everyone interested in the workings of the marketplace."--William J. Doyle, William Doyle Galleries

"Smith not only turns up many aspects of auctioneering which the ordinary person is likely to know little about, but also shows that auctions provide insights into many other more 'orthodox' forms of market transactions. "--Anthony Giddens, Cambridge University

"An informed and insightful analysis of the dynamics of the auction market; will be of immense interest to the interested amateur and seasoned professional alike."--Wendell Garrett, Editor, "Antiques Magazine

""Auctions is a masterpiece of institutional analysis. The combination of thick description and lucid analysis in this book is superb. Erving Goffman would have liked it."--Lewis A. Coser, SUNY at Stony Brook

About the Author:

Charles W. Smith is Professor of Sociology at Queens College and the Graduate Faculty, City University of New York, and author of The Mind of the Market.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0520072014
• ISBN 13: 9780520072015
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 246