An Engine, Not a Camera How Financial Models Shape Markets

In An Engine, Not a Camera , Donald MacKenzie argues that the emergence of modern economic theories of finance affected financial markets in fundamental ways.These new, Nobel Prize-winning theories, based on elegant mathematical models of markets, were not simply external analyses but intrinsic part...

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Main Author: MacKenzie, Donald
Format: eBook Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge MIT Press 2006
The MIT Press
Edition:1
Series:Inside technology
Subjects:
Capital market
Capital market theory
Case studies
Derivat
Derivative securities
Derivatives
Financial crises
Financial crisis
Financial engineering
Finanzmarkt
Finanzprodukt
Kapitalmarkttheorie
Mathematical finance
Mathematical models
Optionspreistheorie
Portfolio-Management
ISBN:0262134608, 9780262134606, 9780262633673, 0262633671
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Summary:In An Engine, Not a Camera , Donald MacKenzie argues that the emergence of modern economic theories of finance affected financial markets in fundamental ways.These new, Nobel Prize-winning theories, based on elegant mathematical models of markets, were not simply external analyses but intrinsic parts of economic processes.
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Available also in a print ed.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
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ISBN:0262134608
9780262134606
9780262633673
0262633671
DOI:10.7551/mitpress/9780262134606.001.0001