Other sorts of commodities: organs and art

Selling Body Parts (Scheper-Hughes article)
        -"free" markets: transplant markets in India, China, South Africa, and Brazil
        -body and self: commodification, singularization, and the human body
        -gifting and compensation
        -rumors and reality
 

High Art Down Home (Plattner article)
        -the art market in St. Louis (NYC and everywhere else)
        -explaining the seeming anomalies in the art market

        -what is a piece of art worth?
 

            
Van Gogh's Red Vineyard                                                    Dr. Gachet: $82.5 million (1990)

Pavarotti's art?

-producers (artists) largely reject market demand
-buyers reward more "real" and "authentic" artists (in a winner-take-all market)
-the role of dealers
        intermediaries, market access, high transaction costs, market making power