Economist breaks online record
A new record for any item sold in an online-only sale at Sotheby’s was set on March 19. The Nobel Memorial Prize for Economic Science awarded to Friedrich von Hayek (1899- 1982) sold for £950,000 (plus 25/20% buyer’s premium).
Given in 1968 for “pioneering work in the theory of money and economic fluctuations”, it led a white glove sale of personal items from the family of an economist still beloved of right-wing policy makers.