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

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.

Professor of Sociology Donald MacKenzie

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