Automating Finance - Infrastructures, Engineers, and the Making of Electronic Markets

Explains how stock markets became automated through the work of invisible technologists, redefining the fabric of finance for the twenty-first century.

List of contents

Preface; 1. Markets in milliseconds; 2. Infrastructures of kinship; 3. The power of invisibility; 4. The hubris of platforms; 5. The wizards of king street; 6. Making moral markets; 7. Rabbits guarding the lettuce; 8. Infrastructures, kinship, and queues.

About the author

Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra is Assistant Professor in Sociology at the University of California, San Diego. Building on an early interest in econophysics and artificial financial markets, his work covers the history of technology in financial markets, the sociology of art markets, and the use of computational methods in social science.

Summary

By exploring the behind-the-scenes automation of stock exchanges in Britain and America, this book shows the importance of place, history, and politics in shaping the contours of markets and their technologies. It will be useful for social scientists, historians, business scholars, and anyone interested in understanding how automation transformed finance.

Product details

• Authors: Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra, Juan Pablo (University of California Pardo-Guerra
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2019
• EAN: 9781108496421
• ISBN: 978-1-108-49642-1
• No. of pages: 370
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > International economy; Finance, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Finance / General, Economic history, International Economics, International Finance, Finance and the finance industry