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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),

• Title : Material Markets: How Economic Agents are Constructed (Clarendon Lectures in Management Studies)
• Author : Donald MacKenzie
• Rating : 4.64 (426 Vote)
• Publish : 2015-10-9
• Format : Hardcover
• Pages : 240 Pages
• Asin : 0199278156
• Language : English

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).. About the AuthorDonald MacKenzie is Professor of Sociology (Personal Chair) at the University of Edinburgh

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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).

. 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. Donald MacKenzie is Professor of Sociology (Personal Chair) at the University of Edinburgh

In this book, MacKenzie argues that economic agents and markets need to be analyzed in their full materiality: their physicality, their corporeality, their technicality. 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.. Donald Mackenzie is one of the most perceptive analysts of the workings of the financial world. Markets are populated not by disembodied, abstract agents, but by embodied human beings and technical systems. Financial markets, processes, and instruments are often difficult to fathom; and recent turbulence suggests they may be out of control in some respects. 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 synthe