
Tag: social studies of finance


Market Forecasting: A Sensitive Practice at the Heart of Neoliberal Capitalism

Financial economics, or “Would you please elaborate on ‘then something bad happened’?”

James Tobin on ‘paper economy’ and short-sighted speculation-generating financial instruments
‘Performativity thesis’: Accounting’s mediating role in bringing theoretical statements from economics into life
“Classification Situations: Life-chances in the Neoliberal Era” proposes to revisit class analysis through the prism of techno-social changes represented by the advent of market devices
“Seeing, Knowing, and Regulating Financial Markets: Moving the Cognitive Framework from the Economic to the Social”
“Insurgent Capitalism: Island, Bricolage and the Re-making of Finance” by Donald MacKenzie & Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra
