Book Review: Adventures in Financeland An Engine,Not a Camera: How Financial Models Shape Markets by Donald MacKenzie. Cambridge,MA,MIT Press,2006,ISBN 0262134608. Pages: 377. £25.95 (hbk) Out of the Pits: Traders and Technology from Chicago to London by Caitlin Zaloom. Chicago,IL,University of Chicago Press,2006. ISBN 0226978133. Pages: 224. £18.50 (hbk) Do Economists Make Markets? On the Performativity of Economics by Donald MacKenzie,Fabian Muniesa and Lucia Siu. Princeton,NJ,Princeton University Press,2007. ISBN 0691130163. Pages: 373. £35.00 (hbk)
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Book Review: Adventures in Financeland An Engine,Not a Camera: How Financial Models Shape Markets by Donald MacKenzie. Cambridge,MA,MIT Press,2006,ISBN 0262134608. Pages: 377. £25.95 (hbk) Out of the Pits: Traders and Technology from Chicago to London by Caitlin Zaloom. Chicago,IL,University of Chicago Press,2006. ISBN 0226978133. Pages: 224. £18.50 (hbk) Do Economists Make Markets? On the Performativity of Economics by Donald MacKenzie,Fabian Muniesa and Lucia Siu. Princeton,NJ,Princeton University Press,2007. ISBN 0691130163. Pages: 373. £35.00 (hbk)
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