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Re:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Amateur Auction Theorist by tpeo on Friday June 03, 2016 @09:12AM (#11830094)
It's right in the end: Goethe's lawyer revealed his reservation price of 1000 talers to Vieweg and he bid just that.
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Re:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Amateur Auction Theorist by ikeboy on Friday June 03, 2016 @10:44AM (#11830594)
It doesn't say "he bid just that" explicitly.
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Re:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Amateur Auction Theorist by tpeo on Friday June 03, 2016 @11:24AM (#11830841)
Oops, I guess you're right about that. I took the expression "nary a penny more" to mean "nary a penny more [than 1000 talers]", since I assumed that Vieweg still bought the manuscript. I see now that this isn't explicit at all.

But Moldovanu & Tietzel (1998) [0] do report in their article that "Vieweg offered exactly that sum [1000 thalers]". So there it is!

[0]: https://www.econ2.uni-bonn.de/pdf/papers/goethes_second.pdf

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Re:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Amateur Auction Theorist by ikeboy on Friday June 03, 2016 @11:45AM (#11830984)
Good find!
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