Material markets
Subtitle: how economic agents are constructed
By: Donald MacKenzie.
Series: Clarendon lectures in management studies
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9780199278152
Subjects: Economics -- Sociological aspects; Markets -- Social aspects; Money market
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Ten precepts for the social studies of finance; title: Assembling an economic actor; title: Derivatives : the production of virtuality; title: The material sociology of arbitrage; title: Measuring profit; title: Constructing emissions markets; title: Conclusion : opening the black boxes of finance.