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A set of novel contributions exploring the sociology of 'market devices' - the analysis of the various sorts of technical instruments that intervene in the shaping and reshaping of markets. * Explores how market devices are set to configure economic calculative capacities and observes the part they play in the marketability of goods and services * Includes a wide array of objects that have been often overlooked in sociological analysis from pricing models to merchandising tools, from trading protocols to aggregate indicators * Analyses the performative aspects of knowledge and expertise needed in adjusting and calibrating marketing devices * Includes original empirical material from the emerging intersection between economic sociology and science and technology studies
| ISBN | 140517028X | | Volumes | 1 | | ISBN13 | 9781405170284
(What's this?) | | Weight (grammes) | 448 | | Publisher | John Wiley and Sons Ltd | | Published in | Chicester | | Imprint | Wiley-Blackwell (an imprint of John Wiley & Sons Ltd) | | Series ISSN | 0038-026 | | Format | Paperback | | Series title | Sociological Review Monographs | | Publication date | 17 Sep 2007 | | Height (mm) | 229 | | Library of Congress | 2007029399 | | Width (mm) | 155 | | DEWEY | 306.3 | | Spine width (mm) | 18 | | DEWEY edition | DC22 | | Academic level | Professional / Scholarly | | Pages | 324 | |
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| | | An introduction to market devices by Fabian Muniesa and Yuval Millo and Michel Callon | | 1 | | | | Calculators, lemmings or frame-makers? The intermediary role of securities analysts by Daniel Beunzu and Raghu Garud | | 13 | | | | Where do analysts come from? The case of financial chartism by Alex Preda | | 40 | | | | The death of a salesman? Reconfiguring economic exchange in Swedish post-war food distribution by Hans Kjellberg | | 65 | | | | Struggling to be displayed at the point of purchase: the emergence of merchandising in French supermarkets by Sandrine Barrey | | 92 | | | | A sociology of market-things: on tending the garden of choices in mass retailing by Franck Cochoy | | 109 | | | | A market of opinions: the political epistemology of focus groups by Javier Lezaun | | 130 | | | | Performance testing: dissection of a consumerist experiment by Alexandre Mallard | | 152 | | | | Framing fish, making markets: the construction of Individual Transferable Quotas (ITQs) by Petter Holm and Kare Nolde Nielsen | | 173 | | | | Making things deliverable: the origins of index-based derivatives by Yuval Millo | | 196 | | | | The Q(u)ALYfying hand: health economics and medicine in the shaping of Swedish markets for subsidized pharmaceuticals by Ehba Sjogren and Claes-Fredrik Helgesson | | 215 | | | | Price as a market device: cotton trading in Izmir Mercantile Exchange by Koray Caliskan | | 241 | | | | Parasitic formulae: the case of capital guarantee products by Vincent Antonin Lepinay | | 261 | | | | Scorecards as devices for consumer credit: the ease of Fair, Isaac & Company Incorporated by Martha Poon | | 284 |
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