Ambiguous numbers: Trading technologies and interpretation in financial markets

By Caitlin Zaloom. 2003

236 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Anthropology, Economics and Econometrics, Finance

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/388da22b9bcd8e1a4bc3364edd28557f92818814

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In Anthropology

1. Chris Hann
2. P. du Gay
3. Keith Hart
4. S. Leins
5. Bill Maurer
6. M. Pryke

In Economics and Econometrics

1. Chris Hann
2. P. du Gay
3. Keith Hart
4. S. Leins
5. Bill Maurer
6. M. Pryke

In Finance

1. Chris Hann
2. P. du Gay
3. Keith Hart
4. S. Leins
5. Bill Maurer
6. M. Pryke
7. Sarah Hall
8. Paul A. Langley

Citations in the corpus

• ‘Responsible investment’: ESG and the post-crisis ethical order (2020, background): “…to create imaginaries and narratives about a possible future in financial market developments.1 In anthropology, Hertz (1998; with Lépinay, 2005), Zaloom (2003, 2006, 2009) and Rudnyckyj (2010; with Richard, 2009) have pointed to the fact that practices in finance are shaped as much by affect…”
• The Anthropology of Money (2006, background): “Indeed, for some, “the first step” of becoming a successful trader “is learning not to calculate” (Zaloom 2003, p. 264; see also Knorr-Cetina & Bruegger 2002).”
• Take an issue: cultural economy and finance (2007, background): “…of finance has been central to a growing group of anthropologists who have developed an impressive array of work on finance and money (Riles 2006; Miyazaki 2003, 2005; Miyazaki and Riles 2004; Maurer 1999, 2001, 2002a, 2002b, 2003, 2005a, 2005b; Tsing 2000, 2005; Zaloom 2003, 2004a, 2004b, 2006).”
• Market and society : the great Transformation today (2009, background): “self-enrichment – trading on the stock market – turns out to be not primarily about calculation at all (Zaloom 2003).”
• From dissonance to resonance: cognitive interdependence in quantitative finance (2012, unknown): “Partly for that reason, ethnography has been a method of choice in the social studies of finance literature (Abolafia, 1996; Beunza & Stark, 2004; Knorr Cetina & Bruegger, 2002; Zaloom, 2003).”
• Economic markets as calculative collective devices (2005, unknown): “( Beunza & Stark , 2004 ; Zaloom , 2003 ; Godechot , 2001 ; Knorr - Cetina & Bruegger , 2002 ) .”