Donald A. MacKenzie

Professor of Sociology Donald MacKenzie

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.

How Financial Models Shape Markets

An Engine, Not a Camera

Mackenzie has achieved a masterful synthesis of engrossing narrative, imaginative concepts, historical perspective, and social concern.Thomas P. Hughes, Mellon Professor of the History and Sociology of Science, The University of Pennsylvania

A Historical Sociology of Nuclear Missile Guidance

Inventing Accuracy

Judy Wajcman

How the Refrigerator Got Its Hum

The Social Shaping of Technology

Great epics from the vast treasury of ancient indian literature.

Myths & Legends of India

A sociological approach to the history of proof, as applied to and performed by computer systems.

Computing, Risk, and Trust

Mechanizing Proof

This volume deals with the myths and legends of the Teutonic peoples--Norsemen, Goths, Vandals, Burgundians, Franks, Angles, Saxons, and all the other Germanic tribes whose descendants now occupy England, Northern France, Switzerland, Belgium, Holland, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Iceland. The volume might have been called Northern European Myth and Legend. It is the body of folk tales, epics and religious beliefs which all Anglo-Saxons have inherited directly from their ancestors, and find most deeply embedded in every-day words and thoughts such as names for the days of the week, names recalling the gods and goddesses of our forefathers.

Teutonic Myth And Legend

Lucia Siu

Fabian Muniesa

Dedicated to the controversial question of whether economics is performative - of whether, in some cases, economics actually produces the phenomena it analyzes, this book features case studies that intend to offer substance to the notion of the performativity of economics in an accessible, nontechnical way.

Donald A. MacKenzie

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