An Engine, Not a Camera: How Financial Models Shape Markets

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An Engine, Not a Camera: How Financial Models Shape Markets

MACKENZIE, Donald - Personal Name;

This pioneering work in the social studies of finance describes how the emergence of modern finance theory has affected financial markets in fundamental ways. Paraphrasing Milton Friedman, the author says that economic models are an engine of inquiry rather than a camera to reproduce empirical facts.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

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Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press., 2006
Collation: 1 online resource (x, 377 pages) :illustrations.
Language: English
ISBN/ISSN: 9780262278805
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Content Type: text
Media Type: computer
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Subject(s): Financial Crises
Capital market
Derivative securities
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Statement of Responsibility: Donald MacKenzie

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Cataloger: Citra
Source: https://direct.mit.edu/books/monograph/2002/An-Engine-Not-a-CameraHow-Financial-Models-Shape
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Digital Object Identifier (DOI): https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/9780262134606.001.0001
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