TY  - BOOK
AU  - MacKenzie,Donald A.
TI  - An engine, not a camera: how financial models shape markets 
T2  - Inside technology
SN  - 9780262278805 (electronic bk.)
AV  - HG4523 .M24 2006eb
U1  - 332/.01/5195 22
PY  - 2006///
CY  - Cambridge, Mass.
PB  - MIT Press
KW  - Capital market
KW  - Mathematical models
KW  - Derivative securities
KW  - Financial crises
KW  - Case studies
KW  - March�e financier
KW  - Mod�eles math�ematiques
KW  - Instruments d�eriv�es (Finances)
KW  - Crises financi�eres
KW  - Cas, �Etudes de
KW  - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
KW  - Finance
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Kapitaalmarkt
KW  - gtt
KW  - Effectenhandel
KW  - Financi�ele crises
KW  - Finanztheorie
KW  - swd
KW  - Kreditmarkt
KW  - Mathematisches Modell
KW  - Wirtschaftswissenschaften
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [333]-368) and index; 1. Performing theory -- 2. Transforming finance -- 3. Theory and practice -- 4. Tests, anomalies, and monsters -- 5. Pricing options -- 6. Pits, bodies, and theorems -- 7. The fall -- 8. Arbitrage -- 9. Models and markets
N2  - 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
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