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Material Markets - How Economic Agents are Constructed (Hardcover)
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Material Markets - How Economic Agents are Constructed (Hardcover)
Series: Clarendon Lectures in Management Studies
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Financial markets, processes, and instruments are often difficult
to fathom; and recent turbulence suggests they may be out of
control in some respects. Donald Mackenzie is one of the most
perceptive analysts of the workings of the financial world. In this
book, MacKenzie 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 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.
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