Market devices
By: edited by Michel Callon, Yuval Millo and Fabian Muniesa.
Contributors: Callon, Michel.; Millo, Yuval, 1969-; Muniesa, Fabian, 1972-
Series: Sociological review monographs
Publisher: Blackwell Pub.
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Malden, MA
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781405170284
Subjects: Marketing -- Sociological aspects; Economics -- Sociological aspects
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: An introduction to market devices / Fabian Muniesa, Yuval Millo and Michel Callon; title: Calculators, lemmings or frame-makers? The intermediary role of securities analysts / Daniel Beunza and Raghu Garud; title: Where do analysts come from? The case of financial chartism / Alex Preda; title: The death of a salesman? Reconfiguring economic exchange in Swedish post-war food distribution / Hans Kjellberg; title: Struggling to be displayed at the point of purchase : the emergence of merchandising in French supermarkets / Sandrine Barrey; title: A sociology of market-things : on tending the garden of choices in mass retailing / Franck Cochoy; title: A market of opinions : the political epistemology of focus groups / Javier Lezaun; title: Performance testing : dissection of a consumerist experiment / Alexandre Mallard; title: Framing fish, making markets : the construction of individual transferable quotas (ITQs) / Petter Holm and Kåre Nolde Nielsen; title: Making things deliverable : the origins of index-based derivatives / Yuval Millo; title: The q(u)ALYfying hand : health economics and medicine in the shaping of Swedish markets for subsidized pharmaceuticals / Ebba Sjögren and Claes-Fredrik Helgesson; title: Price as a market device : cotton trading in Izmir Mercantile Exchange / Koray Caliskan; title: Parasitic formulae : the case of capital guarantee products / Vincent-Antonin Lépinay; title: Scorecards as devices for consumer credit : the case of Fair, Isaac & Company Incorporated / Martha Poon.