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Donald MacKenzie

Donald MacKenzie’s Material Markets: How Economic Agents Are Constructed will be published by Oxford. He teaches sociology at Edinburgh University.

Selected bibliography

  • Material Markets: How Economic Agents Are Constructed (2008)
  • An Engine, Not a Camera: How Financial Models Shape Markets (2006)
  • Mechanizing Proof: Computing, Risk, and Trust (2001)
  • Knowing Machines: Essays on Technical Change (1996)
  • Inventing Accuracy: Historical Sociology of Nuclear Missile Guidance (1991)
  • Statistics in Britain, 1865-1930: The Social Construction of Scientific Knowledge (1981)

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