Marginal Revolution: A good start (the auction culture that is France)

Marginal Revolution Small steps toward a much better world.

A good start (the auction culture that is France) Jan 29th 2013, 05:54 The city of Dijon has just sold off half of its prized municipal wine cellar to help fund local social spending – including a bottle of 1999 Burgundy knocked down at auction for €4,800 to a Chinese buyer. In total, the capital of the Burgundy region raised €151,620 from the "historic sale" of 3,500 bottles that were part of a collection built up since the 1960s, it announced in a statement on Monday. François Rebsamen, the Socialist mayor who ordered Sunday's auction, explained: "We have overall a good budget this year, but the social action spending of the city just keeps going up. There are more and more of our co-citizens who are appealing for social aid." From the FT, here is more.

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