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.
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[1] http://news.uchicago.edu/tag/art
[2] http://news.uchicago.edu/tag/economics/artists
[3] http://news.uchicago.edu/tag/art/auctions
[4] http://news.uchicago.edu/tag/art/contemporary-painters
[5] http://news.uchicago.edu/tag/economics/creativity
[6] http://news.uchicago.edu/tag/economics
[7] http://news.uchicago.edu/tag/art/economics
[8] http://www.davidgalenson.com