Back to results

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Social exchange and valuations in the market for contemporary art

Abstract

dc:description.abstract

The first essay draws on 18 months of ethnographic fieldwork to examine the puzzle of why galleries discipline collectors --

Degree

thesis:*
Name thesis:degree_name
Doctoral
Department dc:contributor.department
Sloan School of Management
Grantor dc:publisher
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Year dc:date.issued
2020

Author and committee

dc:creator, dc:contributor.*
Author dc:creator
  • Riley, James Whitcomb.
Advisor dc:contributor.advisor
  • Susan S. Silbey and Ezra W. Zuckerman Sivan.

Subjects

dc:subject × 1

Rights

dc:rights
Statement dc:rights
  • MIT theses may be protected by copyright. Please reuse MIT thesis content according to the MIT Libraries Permissions Policy, which is available through the URL provided.
Language dc:language.iso
eng

Identifiers

dc:identifier.*
Handle dc:identifier.uri
https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/126977
OAI identifier oai:identifier
oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/126977

Chain of custody

source
Harvested from
MIT
Base URL
dspace.mit.edu/oai/request
Last updated
2026-07-22
Source record
OAI-PMH GetRecord
citation

Riley, James Whitcomb.. Social exchange and valuations in the market for contemporary art. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020. https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/126977