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Publications of Neil de Marchi :chronological combined listing:
%% Books @book{fds318155, Author = {Bianchi, M and De Marchi and N}, Title = {Economizing Mind, 1870-2015: When Economics and Psychology Met . . . or Didn’t}, Volume = {48}, Pages = {300 pages}, Publisher = {Duke University Press}, Editor = {de Marchi, N and Bianchi, M}, Year = {2016}, Month = {November}, ISBN = {978-0822363897}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00182702-3619214}, Doi = {10.1215/00182702-3619214}, Key = {fds318155} } %% Journal Articles @article{fds238089, Author = {De Marchi and N and Greene, JA}, Title = {Adam Smith and private provision of the arts}, Journal = {History of Political Economy}, Volume = {37}, Number = {3}, Pages = {431-454}, Publisher = {Duke University Press}, Year = {2005}, Month = {September}, ISSN = {0018-2702}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00182702-37-3-431}, Doi = {10.1215/00182702-37-3-431}, Key = {fds238089} } @article{fds322188, Author = {De Marchi and N and Van Miegroet and HJ}, Title = {Art, Value, and Market Practices in the Netherlands in the Seventeenth Century}, Journal = {The Art Bulletin}, Volume = {76}, Number = {3}, Pages = {451-464}, Publisher = {Informa UK Limited}, Year = {1994}, Month = {September}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00043079.1994.10786597}, Doi = {10.1080/00043079.1994.10786597}, Key = {fds322188} } @article{fds238090, Author = {De Marchi and N and Van Miegroet and HJ}, Title = {Chapter 3 The History of Art Markets}, Journal = {Handbook of the Economics of Art and Culture}, Volume = {1}, Pages = {69-122}, Publisher = {Elsevier}, Year = {2006}, Month = {December}, ISSN = {1574-0676}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S1574-0676(06)01003-9}, Abstract = {Treating markets as arenas where relative advantage is contested, this entry explores the emergence and evolution of Western markets for paintings, 1450-1750, in terms of the players, their creative moves to secure gain, and the rules they devised to maintain order. Primary markets for paintings arose as a derivative of the commission market for one-off, mainly religious paintings in places such as Florence and Bruges, in the second half of the 15th century. Demand from foreign merchants eager to obtain works in the new medium, oil, gave Bruges an edge. So did a demand for easel paintings on thin linen, and even in oil on panel, as cheap substitutes for tapestries. Variety and cost also played a role. Emulation among differently-trained artists generated novel products plus extraordinary cost reductions, and painters discovered a latent demand among the less wealthy. Some novel products were exported, as were new techniques. The retail market in Florence was limited in size and largely confined to serving a need for cheaper versions of unique, public commissions. A mass demand for paintings across the social spectrum occurred principally in Northern cities: e.g., Antwerp, and later Amsterdam, though also in Spain. Resale markets followed retail with a lag, recycled paintings being handled by second-hand clothes dealers. This sequence - commission nexus, cost-reduction and novel sorts of paintings, mass retail, then resale markets - occurred in cities across Europe. As mass markets emerged, so too did specialist dealers. A large part of the entry is devoted to detailing their creative marketing moves. There were tensions as to whether only artists might sell, but demand mostly overrode guild reluctance to relinquish control of distribution. Widespread distribution came to require efficient sales mechanisms, hence public sales and auctions. The entry explores auction rules and techniques within the broader sequence identified above. © 2006 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.}, Doi = {10.1016/S1574-0676(06)01003-9}, Key = {fds238090} } @article{fds322187, Author = {De Marchi and N}, Title = {Comment on Niehans, Multiple discoveries’}, Journal = {The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought}, Volume = {2}, Number = {2}, Pages = {275-279}, Publisher = {Informa UK Limited}, Year = {1995}, Month = {September}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09672569508538568}, Doi = {10.1080/09672569508538568}, Key = {fds322187} } @article{fds238086, Author = {Kim, J and De Marchi and N and Morgan, MS}, Title = {Empirical model particularities and belief in the natural rate hypothesis}, Journal = {Journal of Econometrics}, Volume = {67}, Number = {1}, Pages = {81-102}, Publisher = {Elsevier BV}, Year = {1995}, Month = {January}, ISSN = {0304-4076}, url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10161/1909 Duke open access}, Abstract = {Economists test to strengthen conviction, though mostly without disclosing how this can occur. There is a clear line of logical implication from theory to model; but in the process there may be a narrowing and specialization of the hypothesis so that it is not clear what weight should be placed upon the result of a test on the model. Empirical models and tests may be narrowed down so far that they involve certain nonunique characteristics of the original theories. Even when a hypothesis is confirmed, no reverse inference back to theory can be made from such tests. We illustrate how a number of such 'characteristics tests' worked, drawing on American economists' tests of the natural rate hypothesis in the 1970s. © 1995.}, Doi = {10.1016/0304-4076(94)01628-D}, Key = {fds238086} } @article{fds238092, Author = {de Marchi, N and Goodwin, C and Weintraub, ER}, Title = {History of economics for the nonhistorian: A collection of papers}, Journal = {History of Political Economy}, Volume = {36}, Number = {4}, Pages = {587-588}, Publisher = {Duke University Press}, Year = {2004}, Month = {January}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00182702-36-4-587}, Doi = {10.1215/00182702-36-4-587}, Key = {fds238092} } @article{fds238088, Author = {De Marchi and N and Van Miegroet and HJ}, Title = {Ingenuity, preference, and the pricing of pictures: The Smith-Reynolds connection}, Journal = {History of Political Economy}, Volume = {31}, Number = {SUPPL. 1}, Pages = {411-412}, Year = {1999}, Month = {January}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00182702-31-supplement-379}, Doi = {10.1215/00182702-31-supplement-379}, Key = {fds238088} } @article{fds322189, Author = {Hirsch, A and de Marchi, N}, Title = {Making a case when theory is unfalsifiable: Friedman’s monetary history}, Journal = {Economics and Philosophy}, Volume = {2}, Number = {1}, Pages = {1-21}, Publisher = {Cambridge University Press (CUP)}, Year = {1986}, Month = {January}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0266267100000778}, Doi = {10.1017/S0266267100000778}, Key = {fds322189} } @article{fds346458, Author = {Boumans, M and De Marchi and N}, Title = {Models, measurement, and “universal patterns”: Jan tinbergen and development planning without theory}, Journal = {History of Political Economy}, Volume = {50}, Number = {S1}, Pages = {231-248}, Year = {2018}, Month = {January}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00182702-7033956}, Abstract = {Development economics in the 1950s and 1960s, as Jan Tinbergen and Irma Adelman saw it, was a “groping in the dark.” Besides the limited knowledge of dynamic mechanisms, the lack of data was a severe problem for any attempt at modeling, whether macroeconomic, input-output, or in the tradition of national income accounting. As concerns the three main figures of this article—the empirical researchers Tinbergen, Hollis Chenery, and Adelman—each developed his or her own approach to modeling: modeling in stages, modeling to capture universal patterns, and factor analysis, respectively. Tinbergen, Chenery, and Adelman shared a common inductive methodology, which might rightly be called “measurement without theory,” in the sense that there was no economic theory that could help them in organizing the available messy and often unreliable data. Chenery saw a role for abstract mathematical models as helping inquirers to rise above such impediments, even if only temporarily, or to gain focus, as was the case with his making technical progress an exogenous variable. Tinbergen’s models of the “first stage” were also intended to make planning for development tractable, but without mixing planning with such focusing devices. Adelman, for her part, preferred to search for and identify factors of development.}, Doi = {10.1215/00182702-7033956}, Key = {fds346458} } @article{fds238085, Author = {De Marchi and NB}, Title = {On the early dangers of being too political an economist: Thorold rogers and the 1868 election to the drummond professorship}, Journal = {Oxford Economic Papers}, Volume = {28}, Number = {3}, Pages = {364-380}, Publisher = {Oxford University Press (OUP)}, Year = {1976}, Month = {January}, ISSN = {0030-7653}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.oep.a041349}, Doi = {10.1093/oxfordjournals.oep.a041349}, Key = {fds238085} } @article{fds325682, Author = {De Marchi and N}, Title = {Psychology fails to trump the multiyear, structural development plan: Albert Hirschman’s largely frustrated efforts to place the “ability to make and carry out development decisions” at the center of the development economics of the late 1950s and the 1960s}, Journal = {History of Political Economy}, Volume = {48}, Number = {suppl 1}, Pages = {226-238}, Publisher = {Duke University Press}, Year = {2016}, Month = {January}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00182702-3619286}, Abstract = {Economists in the 1950s differed on “backwardness” and how best to intervene. World Bank economists favored planning, but one dissenter, Albert Hirschman, held the conviction that the basis for success lay in a desire for change and the will to face down difficulties. In 1959 Hirschman’s approach was rejected as more psychology than economics by a leading representative of detailed plans and removing “obstacles” such as short-ages of foreign exchange and domestic savings. Ironically, RAND psychologists had just shown that team training with simulations plus daily debriefings that encouraged team input, improved performance under stress, roughly in line with Hirschman’s “psychological attitudes” and willingness to face down difficulties.}, Doi = {10.1215/00182702-3619286}, Key = {fds325682} } @article{fds238087, Author = {De Marchi and N}, Title = {The role of Dutch auctions and lotteries in shaping the art market(s) of 17th century Holland}, Journal = {Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization}, Volume = {28}, Number = {2}, Pages = {203-221}, Publisher = {Elsevier BV}, Year = {1995}, Month = {January}, ISSN = {0167-2681}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0167-2681(95)00032-1}, Abstract = {This article examines institution-formation in the nascent art markets of 17th century Amsterdam and Haarlem in response to external and internal pressures on artists' guilds. In Amsterdam, poor quality imports, often copies, were touted as originals and sold in clandestine Dutch auctions. The deliberate confusion about quality imparted to the market features similar to those of Akerlof's "lemons" model, and a need for quality guarantees gave occasion to dealers. In Haarlem and other towns, demand was viewed as fixed and guilds toughened restrictions on the supply side. Dissenters successfully used lotteries to show that demand can be engendered. Promotion was to become a key feature of later art markets. © 1995.}, Doi = {10.1016/0167-2681(95)00032-1}, Key = {fds238087} } @article{fds238091, Author = {De Marchi and N and Weintraub, ER}, Title = {Visualizing the gains from trade, mid-1870s to 1962}, Journal = {European Journal of the History of Economic Thought}, Volume = {10}, Number = {4}, Pages = {551-572}, Publisher = {Informa UK Limited}, Year = {2003}, Month = {December}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0967256032000137711}, Abstract = {Visualization in economics was common, and in trade theory almost a primary mode of analysis and demonstration from the late 19th century until the 1960s. Why? This paper presents two versions of the gains from trade notion that have come to us in visual form, one due to Marshall, the other to Viner and Samuelson. The two are very different, a fact better understood against a backdrop of recent neurological research on visualization. A key finding of that work is that our ability to conceive and recognize forms depends on forms previously seen and stored in the brain. Early exposure and nurturing matter greatly. The research also stresses that there is no basis for distinguishing between seeing and understanding. A satisfactory answer to the 'Why?' question thus requires that we attend to audiences and their capabilities, some hints concerning which are offered here.}, Doi = {10.1080/0967256032000137711}, Key = {fds238091} } %% Chapters in Books @misc{fds238084, Author = {De Marchi and N}, Title = {Confluences of value: Three historical moments}, Pages = {200-219}, Booktitle = {Beyond Price, Value in Culture, Economics, and the Arts}, Publisher = {Cambridge University Press}, Address = {Cambridge}, Editor = {Michael Hutter and David Throsby}, Year = {2007}, Month = {January}, ISBN = {9780521862233}, url = {http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000299343000012&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=47d3190e77e5a3a53558812f597b0b92}, Abstract = {Introduction Can artistic, cultural, and economic valuations ever be determined on common ground? The economist is inclined to say yes, in principle; as in an hedonic regression, artistic and cultural worth may be thought of as factors that help to explain variations in market price. However, this presupposes not only that artistic and cultural value can be scaled suitably, but that economic value somehow encompasses the other two sorts. Focusing solely on the latter point, the inclination of art theorists and cultural anthropologists is to assert that just the opposite is the case. Philosophers of aesthetics contend that artistic value is intrinsic, bound up in the experience of art, and is not reducible to some external use- or pleasure-value. Cultural anthropologists for their part argue that cultural value turns on meanings, whose implications extend to personal and group identities, which in turn are simply incommensurable with price. Moreover, identities are often threatened by markets, which arbitrarily alter and displace them without being able to substitute for the losses. Despite such difficulties, conversations about artistic worth, cultural meaning, and market value take place, as they must, in any context where limited financial resources are allocated to the support of art or culture. And, whether we like it or not, in those conversations tacit agreements are reached about relative values in each sphere.}, Doi = {10.1017/CBO9780511793820.013}, Key = {fds238084} } @misc{fds345869, Author = {De Marchi and N and Van Miegroet and HJ and Raiff, ME}, Title = {Dealer-Dealer pricing in the mid seventeenth-century Antwerp to Paris art trade}, Pages = {113-130}, Booktitle = {Art Markets in Europe, 1400-1800}, Year = {2016}, Month = {December}, ISBN = {9781840146301}, Key = {fds345869} } @misc{fds238082, Author = {Goodwin, CD}, Title = {Economics meets esthetics in the bloomsbury group}, Pages = {137-151}, Booktitle = {Sublime Economy: On the Intersection of Art and Economics}, Publisher = {Routledge}, Year = {2008}, Month = {November}, ISBN = {9780203890578}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780203890578}, Doi = {10.4324/9780203890578}, Key = {fds238082} } @misc{fds371866, Author = {De Marchi and N and Van Miegroet and HJ}, Title = {Exploring Markets in Spain and Nueva España}, Pages = {198-202}, Booktitle = {A History of the Western Art Market: A Sourcebook of Writings on Artists, Dealers, and Markets}, Year = {2023}, Month = {January}, ISBN = {9780520290631}, Key = {fds371866} } @misc{fds322186, Author = {Michaels, R and Jansen, N}, Title = {Introduction}, Pages = {1-12}, Booktitle = {Beyond the State: Rethinking Private Law}, Publisher = {Mohr Siebeck}, Editor = {Jeremy Warren and Adriana Turpin}, Year = {2008}, Key = {fds322186} } @misc{fds322184, Author = {De Marchi and N}, Title = {Models and misperceptions: Chenery, hirschman and tinbergen on development planning}, Journal = {Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology}, Volume = {34B}, Pages = {91-99}, Publisher = {Emerald Group Publishing Limited}, Year = {2016}, Month = {January}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/S0743-41542016000034B004}, Abstract = {In the 1950s, when development as a subject for study was as yet poorly defined, misunderstandings were not uncommon. The grounds were often methodological, but substantive analytical differences were also involved. I focus on an unusual context, the invitation given to one economist, Hollis B. Chenery, who promoted the neo-classical approach to growth, to review two works stemming from very different perspectives. One of these was The Design of Development by econometrician Jan Tinbergen; the other was The Strategy of Economic Development by the highly original thinker Albert O. Hirschman. Chenery found himself baffled by Hirschman's stress on the capacity to make quick and strong decisions in favor of development, if backwardness was to be overcome. But he was equally drawn to Tinbergen's advocacy of detailed development plans. I argue that Chenery was wrong on both counts. He failed to understand Hirschman's argument, which admittedly was novel, and misperceived Tinbergen's approach as of a piece with his own convictions. The episode is instructive chiefly in opening up to reconsideration the ideas and misperceptions of three pioneers of development economics.}, Doi = {10.1108/S0743-41542016000034B004}, Key = {fds322184} } @misc{fds322185, Author = {De Marchi and N}, Title = {Reluctant partners: Aesthetic and market value, 1708-1871}, Pages = {95-111}, Booktitle = {Sublime Economy: On the Intersection of Art and Economics}, Publisher = {Routledge}, Address = {London}, Editor = {Jack Amariglio and Steve Cullenberg and Joseph Childers}, Year = {2008}, Month = {November}, ISBN = {9780203890578}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780203890578}, Doi = {10.4324/9780203890578}, Key = {fds322185} } @misc{fds368883, Author = {De Marchi and N}, Title = {Reluctant partners: Aesthetic and market value, 1708–1871}, Pages = {95-111}, Booktitle = {Sublime Economy: On the intersection of art and economics}, Year = {2008}, Month = {January}, ISBN = {9780415771917}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780203890578-10}, Abstract = {Intrinsic value has a nice ring to it. It picks up on “essential” properties supposedly existing in an object, and implies greater stability than external evaluations, which can be attached, modified, even withdrawn altogether, on whim. The precious metals have intrinsic value, based on undeniable properties-sheen and feel, durability, malleability, resistance to corrosion, and so on-plus accepted standards for measuring weight and purity in the metal itself. When coins were made of precious metals, weight and purity were all that mattered, but intrinsic value dominated even when gold, or silver, was fashioned into objects of use and beauty. Typically there was a second value attached for the fashioning. But it was understood that, in time of crisis, fashioning would be discounted to zero, beautiful objects being melted down for their metal content.1 Yet when a fashioned object had been smashed or melted down to its metallic core, this still had to be valued. Measures of purity and weight are just that, they affect but do not in themselves establish an external exchange value for metal of specified standards. An exchange value is derived from the metals markets, or established by government edict.}, Doi = {10.4324/9780203890578-10}, Key = {fds368883} } @misc{fds238083, Author = {De Marchi and N}, Title = {Smith on ingenuity, pleasure, and the imitative arts}, Pages = {136-157}, Booktitle = {The Cambridge Companion to Adam Smith}, Publisher = {Cambridge University Press}, Editor = {Knud Haakonssen}, Year = {2006}, Month = {January}, ISBN = {9780521770590}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CCOL0521770599.006}, Abstract = {SMITH'S PREOCCUPATION WITH THE IMITATIVE ARTS After Smith returned to Kirkaldy from London in June 1777, one of “Several Works” that occupied him was an essay on the imitative arts (Corr., no. 208). Progress was interrupted, as he feared it would be, by his duties, from January 1778, as a Commissioner of His Majesty's Customs for Scotland. Nonetheless, he returned to this particular essay as time allowed, maintaining his interest in the subject right up to his last days. Twice in the 1780s that we know of, Smith laid out his ideas before competent audiences on what it is about imitation in the arts that gives pleasure. In the summer of 1782, at a meeting in London of the Johnson literary club, he conversed on this theme. The painter Sir Joshua Reynolds was present, told Smith afterward that he perfectly agreed with his notions, and subsequently wrote to his friend Bennet Langton that the subject was clearly one Smith had “considered with attention.” Then, in December 1788, when Smith was in Glasgow for his investiture as Rector of the University, he addressed the Literary Society there, reading a paper of two hours length, on the same subject. The essay remained incomplete at that late date, and it is doubtful whether Smith was able to add much to it before he died. Nonetheless, that he considered his ideas worth preserving may be inferred from the fact that he spared this essay, along with the “History of Astronomy,” and several others, from the destruction he ordered of his lecture notes and other manuscript materials a week or so before his death.}, Doi = {10.1017/CCOL0521770599.006}, Key = {fds238083} }