David Galenson
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David Galenson
Professor in Economics

Areas of Expertise:

  • Art: Economics, auctions
  • Art: Contemporary painters
  • Economics: artists, creativity
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Background:


David Galenson is an economic historian.

He is author of Old Masters and Young Geniuses: The Two Life Cycles of Artistic Creativity (Princeton University Press, 2006), Painting Outside The Lines: Patterns of Creativity in Modern Art (Harvard University Press, 2001), Traders, Planters and Slaves: Market Behavior in Early English America (Cambridge University Press, 1986), and White Servitude in Colonial America: An Economic Analysis (Cambridge University Press, 1981).

His most recent work examines the economics of creativity.

News clippings:
Before the Beatles, there was Buddy
WASHINGTON TIMES
February 6, 2009

What Price Fame?
FRIEZE MAGAZINE
October 17, 2008

A Textbook Example of Ranking Artworks
NEW YORK TIMES
August 4, 2008

Social Innovators as Long-Horizon Creatives
SOCIAL INNOVATION CONVERSATIONS
July 23, 2008

Old Masters, Young Geniuses and the Wisdom of Elders
AGING TODAY
February 21, 2008

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Press releases:
Chronicle articles:
Q&A with David Galenson, Professor of Economics and the College, author of ‘Conceptual Revolut
December 2, 2009

Chicago in the News
August 14, 2008

Fellowships will further research of four scholars
May 1, 2008

Artists approach creative expression in one of two ways
January 19, 2006

Artists approach creative expression in one of two ways
January 19, 2006

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