Clare McAndrew of the consultancy Arts Economics, not Art Economics, compiles an annual global art market study not only with the bank UBS, but also with Art Basel. McAndrew, not Professor Andrew Renton, provided the quotation that began “Scarcity rules” (“Art prices at ‘obscene’ levels as Chinese join the big spenders”, Business, page 61).
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