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基本説明
Addresses the crucial role of technical instruments in the construction of markets. Includes a wide array of objects that have been often overlooked in sociological analysis from pricing models to merchandising tools, from trading protocols to aggregate indicators.
Full Description
A set of novel contributions exploring the sociology of `market devices' - the analysis of the various sorts of technical instruments that intervene in the shaping and reshaping of markets.Explores how market devices are set to configure economic calculative capacities and observes the part they play in the marketability of goods and services Includes a wide array of objects that have been often overlooked in sociological analysis from pricing models to merchandising tools, from trading protocols to aggregate indicators Analyses the performative aspects of knowledge and expertise needed in adjusting and calibrating marketing devices Includes original empirical material from the emerging intersection between economic sociology and science and technology studies
Contents
1. An Introduction to Market DevicesMichel Callon. 2. Calculators, Lemmings or Frame-makers? The Intermediary Role of Securities Analysts: Daniel Beunza and Raghu Garud.3. Where Do Analysts Come From? The Case of Financial Chartism: Alex Preda.4. The Death of a Salesman? Reconfiguring Economic Exchange in Swedish Post-war Food Distribution: Hans Kjellberg.5. Struggling to Be Displayed at the Point of Purchase: The Emergence of Merchandising in French Supermarkets: Sandrine Barrey.6. A Sociology of Market-things: On Tending the Garden of Choices in Mass Retailing: Franck Cochoy.7. A Market of Opinions: The Political Epistemology of Focus Groups: Javier Lezaun.8. Performance Testing: Dissection of a Consumerist Experiment: Alexandre Mallard.9. Framing Fish, Making Markets: The Construction of Individual Transferable Quotas (ITQs): Petter Holm and Kare Nolde Nielsen.10. Making Things Deliverable: The Origins of Index-based Derivatives: Yuval Millo.11. The Q(u)ALYfying Hand: Health Economics and Medicine in the Shaping of Swedish Mmarkets for Subsidized Pharmaceuticals: Ebba Sjoegren and Claes-Fredrik Helgesson.12. Price as a Market Device: Cotton Trading in Izmir Mercantile Exchange: Koray Caliskan.13. Parasitic Formulae: The Case of Capital Guarantee Products: Vincent-Antonin Lepinay.14. Scorecards as Devices for Consumer Credit: The Case of Fair, Isaac & Company Incorporated: Martha Poon.Notes on Contributors.Index
