Abstract
In 1797 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe sold a manuscript through a second-price auction. We investigate Goethe's motivation in the context of the late eighteenth century's book market and relate it to modern auction theory.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 854-859 |
| Number of pages | 6 |
| Journal | Journal of Political Economy |
| Volume | 106 |
| Issue number | 4 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Aug 1998 |
| Externally published | Yes |