Material Markets
How Economic Agents are Constructed
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, butby 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 market…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-19-160851-3
- EAN: 9780191608513
- Produktnummer: 13935816
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 2'330 KB
- Abbildungen: Numerous tables and figures
Über den Autor
Donald MacKenzie is Professor of Sociology (Personal Chair) at the University of Edinburgh. His books include Do Economists Make Markets? On the Performativity of Economics (Princeton University Press, 2008), and An Engine, Not a Camera: How Financial Models Shape Markets (MIT Press, 2006).
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