{"product_id":"automating-finance-infrastructures-engineers-and-the-making-of-electronic-markets-hardback-9781108496421","title":"Automating Finance; Infrastructures, Engineers, and the Making of Electronic Markets (Hardback) 9781108496421","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eAutomating Finance\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eInfrastructures, Engineers, and the Making of Electronic Markets\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eExplains how stock markets became automated through the work of invisible technologists, redefining the fabric of finance for the twenty-first century.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJuan Pablo Pardo-Guerra (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781108496421, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 16 May 2019\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e370 pages, 23 b\/w illus.  2 tables\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 15.6 x 2.1 cm, 0.73 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'… the book is wide-ranging in both its theoretical inspirations and the empirical details it develops. What the book conveys extremely well is precisely how modern markets are produced by multiple moral, political, and organizational struggles.' Nahoko Kameo, American Journal of Sociology\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eTrading floors are a thing of the past. Thanks to a combination of computers, high-speed networks and algorithms, millions of financial transactions now happen in fractions of a second. This book studies the automation of stock markets in the United Kingdom and the United States of America, identifying the invisible actors, devices, and politics that were central to the creation of electronic trading. In addition to offering a detailed account of how stock exchanges wrestled with technology, the book also invites readers to rethink the nature of markets in modern societies. Markets, it argues, are sites for the creation of relations, and in studying how these relations changed through technology, the book highlights the sources, dynamics, and consequences of automation. In this respect, the book is both a history of automation in finance and a sociological analysis of the way in which automation gradually changed the lives and work of key financial actors.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e 1. Markets in milliseconds\u003cbr\u003e 2. Infrastructures of kinship\u003cbr\u003e 3. The power of invisibility\u003cbr\u003e 4. The hubris of platforms\u003cbr\u003e 5. The wizards of king street\u003cbr\u003e 6. Making moral markets\u003cbr\u003e 7. Rabbits guarding the lettuce\u003cbr\u003e 8. Infrastructures, kinship, and queues.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Finance [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Finance\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Finance%20%5BKFF%5D%22\"\u003eKFF\u003c\/a\u003e], Economic history [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Economic history\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Economic%20history%20%5BKCZ%5D%22\"\u003eKCZ\u003c\/a\u003e], International finance [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on International finance\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22International%20finance%20%5BKCLF%5D%22\"\u003eKCLF\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46002173903128,"sku":"9781108496421","price":30.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9781108496421i.jpg?v=1696706885","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/automating-finance-infrastructures-engineers-and-the-making-of-electronic-markets-hardback-9781108496421","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}