KrippnerGreta R.. “The Financialization of the American Economy,”Socio-Economic Review (2005) 3: 173–208. An overview of the growing size and importance of the financial sector.
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MacKenzieDonald. An Engine, Not a Camera: How Financial Models Shape Markets (MIT Press, 2006). Illuminates the invention and diffusion of option-pricing models as a social process that helped remake financial markets.
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RothLouise Marie. “The Social Psychology of Tokenism: Status and Homophily Processes on Wall Street,”Sociological Perspectives (2004) 47(2): 189–214. Shows that despite its strong “bottomline” orientation, Wall Street is not immune to various types of social preference.
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SassenSaskia. “The Embeddedness of Electronic Markets: The Case of Global Capital Markets,” in The Sociology of Financial Markets (Oxford University Press, 2005). Explains why contemporary financial communities are still very much communities.
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SinclairTimothy J.. The New Masters of Capital: American Bond Rating Agencies and the Politics of Creditworthiness (Cornell University Press, 2005). One of the few social science books on credit rating agencies.
