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

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...

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Main Author: MacKenzie, Donald A.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.
Series:Clarendon lectures in management studies.
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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.
Physical Description:1 online resource (ix, 228 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 190-220) and index.
ISBN:9780191557279
0191557277
0199278156
9780199278152
128192539X
9781281925398
9786611925390
6611925392
0191608513
9780191608513
Language:English.
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Print version record.