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What Drives Prices in the Art Market? Will Blockchain Technology Provide Greater Price Transparency, and Move the Market to a True Equilibrium?

The art market is considered by many to be the last great, unregulated market. However, this remains an unsettling fact; the market is plagued with information asymmetry, quasi-monopoly institutions, and high concentrations of wealth that result in paintings reaching $179

After Ben May 3, 2017May 3, 2017 Uncategorized Read more

Will the Increasing Use of Robots in the Workplace Refute Key Ideas from Mandeville’s “The Grumbling Hive”?

Bernard Mandeville, in his poem from 1714, “The Grumbling Hive”, wrote:   Thus every Part was full of Vice, Yet the whole Mass a Paradise; Flatter’d in Peace, and fear’d in Wars, They were th’ Esteem of Foreigners, And lavish

After Ben April 5, 2017April 5, 2017 Uncategorized Read more

Limiting the Environmental Protection Agency in size and budget – Overreach, Hindering of Innovation, and Inefficiencies

The EPA has long been an organization up for debate – whether it truly protects the environment, or if it inadvertently discourages growth. It is a trivial topic with support for both viewpoints. Advocates for limiting the EPA in size

After Ben March 22, 2017March 22, 2017 Uncategorized Read more

Are We Actually Progressing

Abe Barksdale As it seems to advance in many respects, the current generation of Americans has seen a strong decline in work ethic. David Brooks illustrates interesting points from Tyler Cowen’s “The Complacent Class” in his article for the New

After Ben March 1, 2017March 1, 2017 Uncategorized Read more

The relationship between Personal expenditure on Jewelry and Watches and Disposable Personal Income 1970-2014

For my SAS assignment, I wanted to test the effects of income on fine, collected commodities. Originally, I wanted to test incomes effect on fine art consumption, but was unable to find the appropriate data on art expenditure. Therefore, I

After Ben February 15, 2017 Uncategorized Read more

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