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An Engine, Not a Camera: How Financial Models Shape Markets by Donald MacKenzie
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- Publication Date
- 2008-09-01
- Pages
- 392
- ISBN
- 9780262633673
- Book Title
- Engine, Not a Camera : How Financial Models Shape Markets
- Item Length
- 9in
- Publisher
- MIT Press
- Publication Year
- 2008
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.9in
- Genre
- Technology & Engineering, Business & Economics
- Topic
- Investments & Securities / Derivatives, Economic History, Social Aspects, Finance / General
- Item Width
- 6in
- Item Weight
- 18.5 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 392 Pages
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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 intrinsic parts 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 totaling $273 trillion were outstanding worldwide. MacKenzie suggests that this growth could never have happened without the development of theories that gave derivatives legitimacy and explained their complexities. 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 grown into their current form.
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Publisher
MIT Press
ISBN-10
0262633671
ISBN-13
9780262633673
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Product Key Features
Book Title
Engine, Not a Camera : How Financial Models Shape Markets
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Investments & Securities / Derivatives, Economic History, Social Aspects, Finance / General
Publication Year
2008
Genre
Technology & Engineering, Business & Economics
Number of Pages
392 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9in
Item Height
0.9in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
18.5 Oz
Additional Product Features
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Hg4523.M24 2008
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College Graduate Student
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"An Engine, Not a Camera provides an insightful appreciation of the ways in whichfinancial models influence and shape the world they seek to understand." Anthony Hopwood TimesHigher Education Supplement, "An Engine, Not a Cameraprovides an insightful appreciation of the ways in which financial models influence and shape the world they seek to understand." - Anthony Hopwood, Times Higher Education Supplement, An Engine, Not a Camera provides an insightful appreciation of the ways in which financial models influence and shape the world they seek to understand.-- Anthony Hopwood , Times Higher Education Supplement -- A brilliant, extremely lucid account of the connections between financial economics and the development of futures, options, and derivatives markets between the 1950s and 2001. -- Neil Fligstein , American Journal of Sociology --, "A brilliant, extremely lucid account of the connections between financial economics and the development of futures, options, and derivatives markets between the 1950s and 2001." Neil Fligstein American Journal of Sociology, A brilliant, extremely lucid account of the connections between financial economics and the development of futures, options, and derivatives markets between the 1950s and 2001., "An Engine, Not a Camera provides an insightful appreciation of the ways in which financial models influence and shape the world they seek to understand." Anthony Hopwood Times Higher Education Supplement, "A brilliant, extremely lucid account of the connections between financial economicsand the development of futures, options, and derivatives markets between the 1950s and 2001." NeilFligstein American Journal of Sociology, An Engine, Not a Camera provides an insightful appreciation of the ways in which financial models influence and shape the world they seek to understand.
Copyright Date
2006
Dewey Decimal
332.015195
Intended Audience
Trade
Series
Inside Technology Ser.
Dewey Edition
22
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