An Engine, Not a Camera: How Financial Models Shape Markets

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Price
$42.00
Publisher
MIT Press
Publish Date
Pages
392
Dimensions
5.9 X 8.8 X 0.9 inches | 1.15 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9780262633673
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About the Author

Donald MacKenzie is Professor of Sociology (Personal Chair) at the University of Edinburgh. His books include Inventing Accuracy (1990), Knowing Machines (1996), and Mechanizing Proof (2001), all published by the MIT Press. Portions of An Engine, Not a Camera won the Viviana A. Zelizer Prize in economic sociology from the American Sociological Association.

Reviews
An Engine, Not a Camera provides an insightful appreciation of the ways in which financial models influence and shape the world they seek to understand.--Anthony Hopwood, Times Higher Education Supplement--

A brilliant, extremely lucid account of the connections between financial economics and the development of futures, options, and derivatives markets between the 1950s and 2001.

--Neil Fligstein, American Journal of Sociology--