Introduction: the technological economy

By A. Barry, D. Slater. 2002

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Subfields: Communication, Management of Technology and Innovation, Sociology and Political Science

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Citations in the corpus

• Common cents: situating money in time and place (2005, background): “…efforts to articulate the links between the economic and non-economic realms, and by the debates around the ways that these realms have been defined and limited / the special issue of Economy and Society on the technological society is but one example of these debates (see Barry and Slater 2002).”
• Standards, techno-economic networks, and playing fields: Performing the global market economy (2010, background): “In principle, as sociologists have long argued, calculation tends to function as an ‘anti-political’ device: it reduces the space of possible political contestation (Barry and Slater, 2002).”
• From counting risk to making risk count: Boundary-work in risk management (2011, background): “They created new manageable realities (calculable objects) that could, in turn, be the objects of economic calculation (Barry and Slater, 2002).”
• Agencement in housing markets: The case of the UK construction industry (2010, background): “…particularity of markets, the practicalities of their operation, their material form, their emotional qualities, their sociality and their agency (Barry and Slater, 2002; Callon, 1998b; Hardie and Mackenzie, 2007; MacKenzie, 2006; Munro and Smith, 2008; Pryke, 2007; Smith, Munro and Christie,…”
• Tracking the numbers: Across accounting and finance, organizations and markets (2009, background): “Therefore, in a further step of the argument, the question was raised whether such artefacts - essential in changing transaction rules - are endowed with agential features, called calculative agency (Callon, 2004, p. 123; Barry & Slater, 2002).”
• Socio-Technical Agency in Financial Markets (2006, background): “Current debates about socio-technical agency have focused on technology as a mediating agent (Pinch, 2003: 248) in financial markets (Barry & Slater, 2002: 177; Callon, 2004: 121).”