Bibliograph

An engine, not a camera, how financial models shape markets, Donald MacKenzie

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An engine, not a camera, how financial models shape markets, Donald MacKenzie

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-368) and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

An engine, not a camera

Nature of contents

dictionariesbibliography

Oclc number

69662285

Responsibility statement

Donald MacKenzie

Series statement

Inside technology

Sub title

how financial models shape markets

Summary

This pioneering work in the social studies of finance describes how the emergence of modern finance theory has affected financial markets in fundamental ways. Paraphrasing Milton Friedman, the author says that economic models are an engine of inquiry rather than a camera to reproduce empirical facts

Table Of Contents

1. Performing theory -- 2. Transforming finance -- 3. Theory and practice -- 4. Tests, anomalies, and monsters -- 5. Pricing options -- 6. Pits, bodies, and theorems -- 7. The fall -- 8. Arbitrage -- 9. Models and markets

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