MacKenzie, Donald
Material Markets : How Economic Agents are Constructed
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 hedge funds (the book contains the first social-science study of a hedge fund based on direct observation); 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; and the crucial new markets in carbon emissions.
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. -
Avainsanat: BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / General BUS000000
- Tekijä(t)
- MacKenzie, Donald
- Julkaisija
- Oxford University Press
- Julkaisuvuosi
- 2008
- Kieli
- en
- Painos
- 1
- Kategoria
- Talous
- Tiedostomuoto
- E-kirja
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9780191557279