Table of Contents:
  • An introduction to market devices / Fabian Muniesa, Yuval Millo, Michel Callon
  • Calculators, lemmings or frame-makers? : the intermediary role of securities analysts / Daniel Beunza, Raghu Garud
  • Where do analysts come from? : the case of financial chartism / Alex Preda
  • The death of a salesman? : reconfiguring economic exchange in Swedish post-war food distribution / Hans Kjellberg
  • Struggling to be displayed at the point of purchase : the emergence of merchandising in French supermarkets / Sandrine Barrey
  • A sociology of market-things : on tending the garden of choices in mass retailing / Franck Cochoy
  • A market of opinions : the political epistemology of focus groups / Javier Lezaun
  • Performance testing : dissection of a consumerist experiment / Alexandre Mallard
  • Framing fish, making markets : the construction of individual transferable quotas (ITQs) / Petter Holm, Kåre Nolde Nielsen
  • Making things deliverable : the origins of index-based derivatives / Yuval Millo
  • The q(u)alyfying hand : health economics and medicine in the shaping of Swedish markets for subsidized pharmaceuticals / Ebba Sjögren, Claes-Fredrik Helgesson
  • Price as a market device : cotton trading in Izmir Mercantile Exchange / Koray Caliskan
  • Parasitic formulae : the case of capital guarantee products / Vincent-Antonin Lépinay
  • Scorecards as devices for consumer credit : the case of Fair, Isaac & Company Incorporated / Martha Poon.