Re:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Amateur Auction Theorist
by ikeboy on Friday June 03, 2016 @10:44AM
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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
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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