An Engine, Not a Camera: How Financial Models Shape Markets (Inside Technology Series) Paperback - 2008
by Donald Mackenzie
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- Title An Engine, Not a Camera: How Financial Models Shape Markets (Inside Technology Series)
- Author Donald Mackenzie
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First Edition 3r
- Condition Used - Very good
- Pages 392
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, and London, England
- Publication date 2008-08
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Glossary, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # GOR006676484
- ISBN 9780262633673 / 0262633671
- Weight 1.15 lbs (0.52 kg)
- Dimensions 8.8 x 5.9 x 0.9 in (22.35 x 14.99 x 2.29 cm)
- Age range 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Category Technology & Industrial Arts
- Dewey Decimal Code 332.015
- Quantity available 1
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Readers widely praise this as a rigorous yet accessible study of how financial models shape markets rather than merely describe them. They commend its clear history of ideas, rich interviews, and influential performativity thesis, calling it essential for finance and economic sociology. Some note dry or dense stretches in technical and historical sections, but the consensus is that it’s highly informative, thought-provoking, and strongly recommended, with curiosity about its implications after the 2008 crisis.
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