Have a look: https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auc...llection/6f31176a-1284-4996-9c30-24315ededca1 20,000 GBP Who would have thought!!
I can understand paying $20,000 for Jackie Onasis' stainless steel DuPont lighter when Sotheby's auctioned off her stuff, but outside of a few academic types, this guy was a nobody even if he did win half a Nobel prize for economics. (Yup, shared with another guy). Yeah, too much money indeed. His Noble Prize fetched over a million GBP. His typewriter a bargain at only 17,500. Here's a 200 gram bar that went to the moon: https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auc...llection/c2aac066-7c84-4061-8b7c-a47dab435786 His great contribution to economic theory? That free markets allocate resources more efficiently than planned economies. Now there's a novel concept worthy of a presidential medal of freedom (yup, he got one of those too). I just feel bad for the heirs of the chumps who paid that much for this junk. Then again maybe the heirs won't get anything at all, not even these gold trinkets. These economic aficionados are probably the type who would leave their own kids out of their will because it would violate their high moral beliefs on how economies are supposed to work if they left them anything.
