||0 of 5 people found the following review helpful.| Very unclear what the author wants to accomplish with this book|By Jackal|This book consists of a number of case studies with a financial market theme. The chapters are not ethnographies, because they are just the backdrop for the author's theoretical descriptions. Very little data are actually presented about the cases; barely enough for the author to make his points. About the Author||Donald MacKenzie is Professor of Sociology (Personal Chair) at the University of Edinburgh. He was winner of the 2005 John Desmond Bernal Prize, awarded jointly by the Society for Social Studies of Science and the Institute for Scientific Info
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