Donald MacKenzie

Donald MacKenzie’s research on trading is currently funded by the UK Economic and Social Research Council. He teaches sociology at the University of Edinburgh, and is one of the authors of Chains of Finance.

In the LRB Archive:

• Just how fast?: High-Frequency Trading · 7 March 2019

• How to Solve the Puzzle · 5 April 2018

• Short Cuts: Wall Street’s Fear Gauge · 25 January 2018

• Must Do Better: Why isn’t banking cheaper? · 5 May 2016

• Dark Markets · 4 June 2015

• On ‘Spoofing’ · 21 May 2015

• At Cermak · 4 December 2014

• Be grateful for drizzle · 11 September 2014

• The Magic Lever · 9 May 2013

• How to Make Money in Microseconds: Algo-Sniffing · 19 May 2011

• All Those Arrows: a Major Cause of the Financial Crisis · 25 June 2009

  • Fool’s Gold: How Unrestrained Greed Corrupted a Dream, Shattered Global Markets and Unleashed a Catastrophe by Gillian Tett

• An Address in Mayfair: How to Start a Hedge Fund · 4 December 2008

• What’s in a Number?: The $300 Trillion Question · 25 September 2008

• End-of-the-World Trade: the credit crisis · 8 May 2008

• Zero Is a Clenched Fist: Trading from the Pit · 1 November 2007

  • Out of the Pits: Traders and Technology from Chicago to London by Caitlin Zaloom

• The Political Economy of Carbon Trading: A Ratchet · 5 April 2007

• The Blindfolded Archer: The stochastic dynamics of market prices · 4 August 2005

  • The (Mis)behaviour of Markets: A Fractal View of Risk, Ruin and Reward by Benoit Mandelbrot and Richard Hudson

• Empty Cookie Jar: Ethnoaccountancy · 22 May 2003

  • Pipe Dreams: Greed, Ego and the Death of Enron by Robert Bryce
  • Enron: The Rise and Fall by Loren Fox

• The Imagined Market: Money Games · 31 October 2002

  • Machine Dreams: Economics Becomes a Cyborg Science by Philip Mirowski

• What’s in the bottle?: The Science Wars Revisited · 9 May 2002

  • The One Culture? A Conversation about Science edited by Jay Labinger and Harry Collins

• Fear in the Markets: the ways in which ‘finance theory’ becomes part of what it examines · 13 April 2000

• Humming, Gurgling and Whistling · 11 December 1997

  • Engineering the Revolution: Arms and Enlightenment in France, 1763-1815 by Ken Alder

• Wasting Assets · 23 January 1997

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