Research Interests for Neil B. De Marchi

Research Interests: Emergence of Art & Financial Markets and Cultural Economics

Neil De Marchi received a B.Ec. from the University of Western Australia, went to Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, and completed a B.Phil. in economics there before returning to Australia to teach at Monash University. His Ph.D. is from the Australian National University. With interruptions (1966-77 at the University of Amsterdam, 1980-83 as a director of research at the ABN Bank in Amsterdam) he has been at Duke since 1971. He writes in the history of economic ideas and in the history and functioning of markets, in particular markets for art. He assists in editing History of Political Economy.

Recent Publications
  1. N.B. De Marchi with Hans J. Van Miegroet, Invasions by Antwerp dealers of the Lille Market (17th C), in Auctions and Dealers. Disseminating Netherlandish paintings during the Ancien Regime, edited by Filip Vermeylen and Hans Vlieghe (Accepted, 2008), Turnhout, Brepols
  2. N.B. De Marchi with Hans J. Van Miegroet, Brueghel in Paris, in Brueghel Enterprises (Accepted, 2008), Zwolle, Waanders
  3. N.B. De Marchi, Reluctant Partners. Aesthetic and Market Value, 1708-1871, in The Aesthetics of Value, edited by Jack Amariglio, Steve Cullenberg, and Joseph Childers (Accepted, 2008), Routledge, London
  4. N.B. De Marchi with Meaghan Wilson-Anastasios, The impact of unscrupulous dealers on sustainability in the Australian Aboriginal desert paintings market. A view from the high end, Proceedings of the CIHA Conference (Accepted, 2008), Melbourne University Press, Melbourne
  5. N.B. De Marchi, Confluences of Value. Three Historical Moments, in Beyond Price, Value in Culture, Economics, and the Arts, edited by Michael Hutter and David Throsby (2007), pp. 200-219, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge