An introduction to market devices | p. 1 |
Calculators, lemmings or frame-makers? The intermediary role of securities analysts | p. 13 |
Where do analysts come from? The case of financial chartism | p. 40 |
The death of a salesman? Reconfiguring economic exchange in Swedish post-war food distribution | p. 65 |
Struggling to be displayed at the point of purchase: the emergence of merchandising in French supermarkets | p. 92 |
A sociology of market-things: on tending the garden of choices in mass retailing | p. 109 |
A market of opinions: the political epistemology of focus groups | p. 130 |
Performance testing: dissection of a consumerist experiment | p. 152 |
Framing fish, making markets: the construction of Individual Transferable Quotas (ITQs) | p. 173 |
Making things deliverable: the origins of index-based derivatives | p. 196 |
The Q(u)ALYfying hand: health economics and medicine in the shaping of Swedish markets for subsidized pharmaceuticals | p. 215 |
Price as a market device: cotton trading in Izmir Mercantile Exchange | p. 241 |
Parasitic formulae: the case of capital guarantee products | p. 261 |
Scorecards as devices for consumer credit: the case of Fair, Isaac & Company Incorporated | p. 284 |
Notes on contributors | p. 307 |
Index | p. 312 |
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