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An Engine, Not a Camera: How Financial Models Shape Markets (Inside Technology) (9780262633673): Donald Mackenzie: Books. An Engine, Not a Camera provides an insightful appreciation of the ways in which financial models influence and shape the world they seek to understand. Anthony Hopwood Times Higher Education SupplementA brilliant, extremely lucid account of the connections between financial economics and the development of futures, options, and derivatives markets between the 1950s and 2001. Neil Fligstein American Journal of Sociology An Engine, Not a Camera is a compelling, detailed, and elegantly written exploration of the conditions in which finance economists help to make the world they seek to describe and predict. Donald MacKenzie has long been without equal as a sociologist of how late modern futures are brought into being and made authoritative. This is his best work yet. Steven Shapin , Franklin L. Ford Professor of the History of Science, Harvard University Maggie Mort tells the fascinating and unusual story of the development of a high-tech submarine from the point of view of workers on the project.--Michel Callon, Ecole des Mines de Paris
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