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"Having returned from an audacious incursion into the black box of modern financial markets, Donald MacKenzie shows how economic theory has succeeded in capturing and shaping them. This book will be of substantial interest to specialists in a range of fields including economics, finance theory, economic sociology, and science and technology studies. But MacKenzie's tour de force is to make clear, even to nonspecialists, that through complex technical issues, alternative forms of economic organization can be imagined and discussed." --Michel Callon, ecole des Mines de Paris
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A pioneering work in the social studies of finance describes how the emergence of modern finance theory has affected financial markets in fundamental ways - as an engine that shapes them rather than a camera that reproduces their every detail. In "An Engine, Not a Camera", Donald MacKenzie argues that the emergence of modern economic theories of finance affected financial markets in fundamental ways. These new, Nobel Prize-winning theories, based on elegant mathematical models of markets, were not simply external analyses but an intrinsic part of economic processes. Paraphrasing Milton Friedman, Mackenzie says that economic models are an engine of inquiry rather than a camera to reproduce empirical facts. More than that, the emergence of an authoritative theory of financial markets altered those markets fundamentally. For example, in 1970, there was almost no trading in financial derivatives such as "futures." By June of 2004, derivatives contracts totalling $273 trillion were outstanding worldwide. MacKenzie suggests that this growth could never have happened without the development of theories that gave derivatives legitimacy and simplified their complexity. MacKenzie examines the role played by finance theory in the two most serious crises to hit the world's financial markets in recent years: the stock market crash of 1987 and the market turmoil that engulfed the hedge fund Long-Term Capital Management in 1998. He also looks at finance theory that is somewhat beyond the mainstream - chaos theorist Benoit Mandelbrot's model of "wild" randomness. MacKenzie's pioneering work in the social studies of finance will interest anyone who wants to understand how America's financial markets have come to take the shape they have.
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"Having returned from an audacious incursion into the black box of modern financial markets, Donald MacKenzie shows how economic theory has succeeded in capturing and shaping them. This book will be of substantial interest to specialists in a range of fields including economics, finance theory, economic sociology, and science and technology studies. But MacKenzie's tour de force is to make clear, even to nonspecialists, that through complex technical issues, alternative forms of economic organization can be imagined and discussed." --Michel Callon, ecole des Mines de Paris
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A pioneering work in the social studies of finance describes how the emergence of modern finance theory has affected financial markets in fundamental ways - as an engine that shapes them rather than a camera that reproduces their every detail. In "An Engine, Not a Camera", Donald MacKenzie argues that the emergence of modern economic theories of finance affected financial markets in fundamental ways. These new, Nobel Prize-winning theories, based on elegant mathematical models of markets, were not simply external analyses but an intrinsic part of economic processes. Paraphrasing Milton Friedman, Mackenzie says that economic models are an engine of inquiry rather than a camera to reproduce empirical facts. More than that, the emergence of an authoritative theory of financial markets altered those markets fundamentally. For example, in 1970, there was almost no trading in financial derivatives such as "futures." By June of 2004, derivatives contracts totalling $273 trillion were outstanding worldwide. MacKenzie suggests that this growth could never have happened without the development of theories that gave derivatives legitimacy and simplified their complexity. MacKenzie examines the role played by finance theory in the two most serious crises to hit the world's financial markets in recent years: the stock market crash of 1987 and the market turmoil that engulfed the hedge fund Long-Term Capital Management in 1998. He also looks at finance theory that is somewhat beyond the mainstream - chaos theorist Benoit Mandelbrot's model of "wild" randomness. MacKenzie's pioneering work in the social studies of finance will interest anyone who wants to understand how America's financial markets have come to take the shape they have.
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