Automating Finance: Infrastructures, Engineers, and the Making of Electronic Markets

ISBN-13: 9781108496421 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 370 str.

Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra

Opis

By exploring the behind-the-scenes automation of stock exchanges in Britain and America, this book shows the importance of place, history, and politics in shaping the contours of markets and their technologies. It will be useful for social scientists, historians, business scholars, and anyone interested in understanding how automation transformed finance.

Recenzje

'… the book is wide-ranging in both its theoretical inspirations and the empirical details it develops. What the book conveys extremely well is precisely how modern markets are produced by multiple moral, political, and organizational struggles.' Nahoko Kameo, American Journal of Sociology

Spis treści

Preface; 1. Markets in milliseconds; 2. Infrastructures of kinship; 3. The power of invisibility; 4. The hubris of platforms; 5. The wizards of king street; 6. Making moral markets; 7. Rabbits guarding the lettuce; 8. Infrastructures, kinship, and queues.