By Trevor Pinch, Richard Swedberg
Although social scientists typically agree that know-how performs a key position within the economic system, economics and expertise haven't begun to be introduced jointly right into a coherent framework that's either analytically fascinating and empirically orientated. This ebook attracts at the instruments of technological know-how and expertise stories and monetary sociology to reconceptualize the intersection of financial system and expertise, suggesting materiality--the concept that social lifestyles contains not just actors and social kin but additionally objects--as the theoretical aspect of convergence. The members take in basic matters, akin to person service provider in a community economic climate and the materiality of the loved ones in monetary historical past, in addition to particular monetary applied sciences similar to the inventory ticker, the buying and selling room, and the phone. types of infrastructure--accounting, international configurations of buying and selling and data applied sciences, and patent law--are tested. Case stories of the influence of the net and data know-how on intake (e-commerce), the acceptance financial system (the upward push of on-line stories of products), and organizational settings (outsourcing of an IT process) around off this number of essays.
Contributors: Elizabeth Popp Berman, Daniel Beunza, Michel Callon, Karin Knorr Cetina, Shay David, Thomas F. Gieryn, Barbara Grimpe, David Hatherly, David Leung, Christian Licoppe, Donald MacKenzie, Philip Mirowski, Fabian Muniesa, Edward Nik-Khah, Trevor Pinch, Alex Preda, Nicholas J. Rowland, David Stark, Richard Swedberg
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