Assembling an Economic Actor: The Agencement of a Hedge Fund

By Iain Hardie, Donald MacKenzie. 2007

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Subfields: Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Sociology and Political Science

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The democratization of finance? Promises, outcomes and conditions (2007, background): “In MacKenzie's analysis of different kinds of performativity, macro events figure as an occasional disruption or source of complexities which must be simplified by economic actors ( Hardie and MacKenzie, 2006 ).”
Tracking the numbers: Across accounting and finance, organizations and markets (2009, background): “…and financial markets at a more aggregate level (studies of performativity, e.g., have a decidedly macroanalytical orientation, see MacKenzie, 2006; Muniesa & Callon, 2007; MacKenzie, Beunza & Hardie, 2006; MacKenzie & Hardie, 2007), historical (e.g., Preda, 2006) as well as contemporary research.”
Alternative food networks as “market agencements”: Exploring their multiple hybridities (2016, background): “” Examples of market devices include quality standards and buying guides (Karpik, 2010), product packaging and supermarket carts and shelves (Barrey, 2007; Cochoy, 2004, 2008), trading rooms and algorithmic configurations (Callon and Muniesa, 2005; Hardie and MacKenzie, 2007), etc.”
Geographies of money and finance I: Cultural economy, politics and place (2011, background): “…geographies through, for example, more affordable credit to firms and householders as lenders relaxed their borrowing requirements and the emergence of new business models associated with hedge funds and private equity firms (see, for example, Beunza and Stark, 2004; Hardie and MacKenzie, 2007).”
An Introduction to Market Devices (2007, background): “The notion of agencement is particularly helpful in tackling this issue (Callon, 2007; Hardie and MacKenzie, 2007).”
Affective assemblages: body matters in the pedagogic practices of contemporary school classrooms (2012, background): “‘In one sense, un agencement is thus an assemblage, arrangement, configuration or lay-out … The other side of the word-play in the term agencement is agence , agency’ (Hardie and MacKenzie 2007 , 58).”
Agencement in housing markets: The case of the UK construction industry (2010, background): “(2007) when they talk about market devices as agencements and by Hardie and Mackenzie (2007) when they refer to the agencement (the technical as well as social arrangements and interconnections that constitute and make possible the economic actancy) of a hedge fund.”