An Engine, Not a Camera How Financial Models Shape Markets |
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| Author:
| MacKenzie, Donald |
| Series title: | Inside Technology Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-262-13460-6 |
| Publication Date: | May 2006 |
| Publisher: | MIT Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | AUD $34.99 |
Book Description:
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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.
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.