An Equation and its Worlds

By Donald MacKenzie. 2003

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Finance

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Grabbing “Green”: Markets, Environmental Governance and the Materialization of Natural Capital (2013, background): “…of aligning and articulating models, mechanisms, metrics, actors, interests, and institutions in order to lend them coherence and to create their ability to act in and on the world (Dumont 1977; Buck-Morss 1995; Callon 1998; Miller 2003, 2005; Mitchell 2008; MacKenzie 2003, 2009; Robertson 2012).”
The big, bad wolf and the rational market: portfolio insurance, the 1987 crash and the performativity of economics (2004, background): “There are competing strands within it (see MacKenzie 2003c), and increasing the fit of reality in one respect may worsen it in others.”
Debunking the false dichotomy of leadership idealism and pragmatism: Critical evaluation and support of newer genre leadership theories (2014, background): “Instead, it is the dual processes of considering both epistemologies that creates performative potential and improves theories (MacKenzie, 2003).”
An Introduction to Market Devices (2007, background): “…Hopwood and Miller, 1994; Miller and Rose, 1990; Power, 1996), that have studied the performative capacities of economic knowledge (Callon, 1998; MacKenzie, 2003, 2004, 2006; MacKenzie, Muniesa and Siu, 2007; Fourcade, 2007; Kjellberg and Helgesson, 2006), that have analysed networks of…”
Take an issue: cultural economy and finance (2007, background): “The papers by Fabian Muniesa, Donald MacKenzie and Hirokazu Miyazaki demonstrate and develop this notion well by following the practices and materials within key financial market developments.”
What Does It Mean to Say That Economics Is Performative? (2006, background): “MacKenzie rightly talks of "an equation and its worlds" (MacKenzie 2003).”