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Material Markets Donald MacKenzie (Professor of Sociology, Professor of Sociology, University of Edinburgh)

Material Markets von Donald MacKenzie (Professor of Sociology, Professor of Sociology, University of Edinburgh)

Zusammenfassung

Financial markets, processes, and instruments are often difficult to fathom; the credit crisis highlights both their importance and their fragility. In this book, MacKenzie, one of the most perceptive analysts of the financial world, puts forward a material sociology of markets, rooted in the actors and agents that shape modern finance.

Material Markets Zusammenfassung

Material Markets: How Economic Agents are Constructed Donald MacKenzie (Professor of Sociology, Professor of Sociology, University of Edinburgh)

Financial markets, processes, and instruments are often difficult to fathom; the credit crisis highlights both their importance and their fragility. Donald MacKenzie is one of the most perceptive analysts of the workings of the financial world. In this book, he argues that economic agents and markets need to be analyzed in their full materiality: their physicality, their corporeality, their technicality. Markets are populated not by disembodied, abstract agents, but by embodied human beings and technical systems. Concepts and systematic ways of thinking that simplify market processes and make them mentally tractable are essential to how markets function. In putting forward this material sociology of markets, the book synthesizes and contributes to the new field of social studies of finance: the application to financial markets not just of economics but of wider social-science disciplines, in particular science and technology studies. The topics covered include the development of financial derivatives exchanges (non-existent in 1970, but now trading products equivalent to $13,000 for every human being on earth); arbitrage; how corporate profit figures are constructed; the crucial new markets in carbon emissions; and a case-study of a hedge fund (based, unusually, on direct observation of its trading). The book will appeal to research students and academics across the social sciences, and the general reader will enjoy the book's explanations and analyses of some of the most important phenomena of today's turbulent markets.

Über Donald MacKenzie (Professor of Sociology, Professor of Sociology, University of Edinburgh)

Donald MacKenzie is Professor of Sociology (Personal Chair) at the University of Edinburgh. He was winner of the 2005 John Desmond Bernal Prize, awarded jointly by the Society for Social Studies of Science and the Institute for Scientific Information, for career contributions to the field of science studies. His books include Inventing Accuracy (MIT Press, 1990), Knowing Machines (MIT Press, 1996), Mechanizing Proof (MIT Press, 2001), and An Engine, Not a Camera: How Financial Models Shape Markets (MIT Press, 2006).

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction ; 2. Ten Precepts for the Social Studies of Finance ; 3. Assembling an Economic Actor ; 4. Derivatives: The Production of Virtuality ; 5. The Material Sociology of Arbitrage ; 6. Measuring Profit ; 7. Constructing Emissions Markets ; 8. Conclusion: Opening the Black Boxes of Finance

Zusätzliche Informationen

GOR004375851
9780199278152
0199278156
Material Markets: How Economic Agents are Constructed Donald MacKenzie (Professor of Sociology, Professor of Sociology, University of Edinburgh)
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Oxford University Press
2008-12-11
240
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