Title Material markets : how economic agents are constructed / Donald MacKenzie.

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Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.

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Description	1 online resource (ix, 228 pages) : illustrations.
Series	Clarendon lectures in management studies
	Clarendon lectures in management studies.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 190-220) and index.
Contents	Introduction -- Ten precepts for the social studies of finance -- Assembling an economic actor -- Derivatives : the production of virtuality -- The material sociology of arbitrage -- Measuring profit -- Constructing emissions markets -- Conclusion : opening the black boxes of finance.
Note	Print version record.
Summary	Financial markets, processes, and instruments are often difficult to fathom; the credit crisis highlights both their importance and their fragility. In this book, MacKenzie, one of the most perceptive analysts of the financial world, puts forward a material sociology of markets, rooted in the actors and agents that shape modern finance. - ;Financial markets, processes, and instruments are often difficult to fathom; the credit crisis highlights both their importance and their fragility. Donald MacKenzie is one of the most perceptive analysts of the workings of the financial world. In this book.
Subject	Economics -- Sociological aspects.
	Markets -- Social aspects.
	Money market.
	Economics.
	Markets.
	SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
	POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
	SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
	Economics -- Sociological aspects. (OCoLC)fst00902213
	Markets -- Social aspects. (OCoLC)fst01010335
	Money market. (OCoLC)fst01025330
	Markteconomie.
	Sociale wetenschappen.
Other Form:	Print version: MacKenzie, Donald A. Material markets. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009 0199278156 9780199278152 (DLC) 2008049513 (OCoLC)281087796
Standard No.	9786611925390
ISBN	9780191557279 (electronic bk.)
	0191557277 (electronic bk.)

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