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A trading environment that lacks the defining features of a functioning market: price transparency, standardised goods, clear property rights, and reliable enforcement. Transactions occur, but the efficiency and fairness properties of markets are absent.
Art sales occur at prices known only to the parties, for unique objects with contested authenticity, under terms that vary by relationship and cannot be enforced predictably. It resembles a market but lacks market properties.
Art Market Section 1