Out of the Pits: Traders and Technology from Chicago to London
By E. Larson. 2007
293 citations recorded by the source corpus.
Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Marketing
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- Desiree Fields
- Sarah Hall
- Martha Poon
- Andrea Mennicken
- Eitan Wilf
- Hendrik Vollmer
- Alex Preda
- Tim Christiaens
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Citations in the corpus
- From New Deal Institutions to Capital Markets: Commercial Consumer Risk Scores and the Making of Subprime Mortgage Finance (2009, background): “Analyses of technical systems that focus on (human) error are fundamentally ‘asymmetric’ because they are confined to situations of breakdown or crisis.”
- Tracking the numbers: Across accounting and finance, organizations and markets (2009, background): “The approach is to regard these differences not only as discursive devices, legitimating the positions of specific participants and groups, but also to see whether and how they are created in the practical actions of trading, for instance (e.g. Smith 2006; Zaloom, 2006).”
- Toward an Anthropology of Computer-Mediated, Algorithmic Forms of Sociality (2013, background): “In this article, I contribute to the growing anthropological literature that has been concerned with theorizing the role played by computerized algorithms in various ethnographic sites (Downey 1998; Helmreich 1998; Kockelman 2011; Such-man 2007; Zaloom 2006).”
- Constructing a New Asset Class: Property-led Financial Accumulation after the Crisis (2018, background): “…reached as calculative devices (e.g., financial models, credit scoring, stock tickers, and traders’ computer screens; cf. MacKenzie 2006; Preda 2006; Zaloom 2006; Poon 2009), and goods join with the beliefs, expertise, and specialized knowledge of market agents (including “confined economists,”…”
- Digital subjectivation and financial markets: Criticizing Social Studies of Finance with Lazzarato (2016, background): “Their focus is primarily on computer screen trading, because trading pits, where traders shout orders instead of using computers, have declined in importance (Borch et al., 2015: 8–11; Zaloom, 2010).”
- Geographies of money and finance I: Cultural economy, politics and place (2011, background): “For example, Zaloom (2006) examines how the growth of electronic trading technologies changed the nature of market sociality through a comparative study of open outcry (face-to-face) trading in the pit of the Chicago Board of Trade and electronic (faceto-screen) trading at a London futures dealing…”