Material markets : how economic agents are constructed /
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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2009.
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Colección: | Clarendon lectures in management studies.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.