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courtesy Books

Subject: Literature

A book that gives advice to aspiring young courtiers in etiquette and other aspects of behaviour expected at royal or noble courts. This kind of work—sometimes written in verse—first ...

Robbins, Lionel Charles

Robbins, Lionel Charles (1898–1984)   Reference library

The Biographical Dictionary of British Economists

Reference type:
Subject Reference
Current Version:
2010
Subject:
Social sciences, Economics
Length:
3,635 words

...and flowing prose, with a variety of unusual words, and with an ability to communicate which again became apparent in his splendid (posthumously published) lectures on the history of economic thought, Robbins was a man who had delivered in the course of a long career, with courtesy, open-mindedness and a very powerful personality, balanced discussions of an enormously wide range of economic issues, from internationalism to the microeconomics of labour supply, in a way which placed him at the forefront of his profession. BIBLIOGRAPHY ‘ The Representative...

Art Markets

Art Markets   Reference library

Michaël North

The Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History

Reference type:
Subject Reference
Current Version:
2005
Subject:
Social sciences, Economics
Length:
5,745 words
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...paintings (net) to its stock. Only from the 1890s, when exports to the United States increased, did the import and export of paintings begin to constitute equal flows. A n A uction H ouse . Auction sale in progress of a painting (at top right) at Sotheby's. (Photograph Courtesy of Sotheby's, Inc. © 2002) As regards the demand side, private collectors remained the major group on the market. Besides patronizing artists, they bought at auctions, at exhibitions, and from dealers. In the 1830s, however, a new force appeared: museums. They began to remove...

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