A Price is a Social Thing: Towards a Material Sociology of Arbitrage

By Daniel Beunza, Iain Hardie, Donald MacKenzie. 2006

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Finance, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

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Joining, Upgrading and Being Competitive in Global Value Chains: A Strategic Framework (2013, unknown): “Hence, production takes place at different geographic scales (local, national, regional, and global), driven by the relative differences between countries with respect to the above mentioned characteristics and their impact on profits and costs: through proximity to final demand (Amiti, 2005), relat”
Comparative and International Corporate Governance (2010, background): “Many of these phenomena are most actively being discussed within the literature on new “social studies in finance” (Beunza, Hardie, & MacKenzie, 2006 ; MacKenzie, 2007 ) and the economic sociology of markets (Beckert, 2003 ; Fligstein & Dauter, 2007 ), but remain sadly divorced from debates over”
Fragmentation and Trade in Value Added Over Four Decades (2012, unknown): “10See Yi (2003, 2010), Dixit and Grossman (1982), Baldwin and Venables (2010), or Costinot, Vogel, and Wang (2011). stage two goods, which are then fed into final demand channels.”
Beyond a subjective theory of value and towards a ‘fair price’: an organizational perspective on Fairtrade minimum price setting (2010, background): “They have shown increasing interest in understanding how institutions, socio-cultural devices and theories ‘perform’ the market, including the socially concrete ‘who (or what) actually calculates (and how)’ (Beunza et al., 2006; Callon and Muniesa, 2005: 1229).”
What Does It Mean to Say That Economics Is Performative? (2006, background): “The fact of imposing devices designed to realize a statement causes other worlds to proliferate in reaction to that 13 From this point of view, a major issue is arbitrage conceived in a socio-technical sense: see Beunza, Hardie, and MacKenzie (2006).”
Fragmentation, Incomes and Jobs: An Analysis of European Competitiveness (2013, unknown): “Baldwin and Venables (2010) introduced the concepts of “snakes” and “spiders” as two arche-type configurations of production systems.”
Organizing the Global Value Chain (2012, unknown): “Others, including Yi (2003), Harms, Lorz, and Urban (2009), and Baldwin and Venables (2010) have unveiled interesting nonlinearities in the response of trade flows to changes in trade frictions in models of production where value is added sequentially along locations around the globe.”
The Surprisingly Swift Decline of U.S. Manufacturing Employment (2013, unknown): “Baldwin and Venables (2012), for example, consider di erent forms of supply chains that emerge in response to the forces that encourage (e.g., transport costs) or discourage (e.g., variation in factor costs) co-location.”