| Description |
1 online resource (x, 377 pages) : illustrations. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Inside technology
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Inside technology.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-368) and index. |
| Contents |
1. Performing theory -- 2. Transforming finance -- 3. Theory and practice -- 4. Tests, anomalies, and monsters -- 5. Pricing options -- 6. Pits, bodies, and theorems -- 7. The fall -- 8. Arbitrage -- 9. Models and markets. |
| Summary |
This pioneering work in the social studies of finance describes how the emergence of modern finance theory has affected financial markets in fundamental ways. Paraphrasing Milton Friedman, the author says that economic models are an engine of inquiry rather than a camera to reproduce empirical facts. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Capital market -- Mathematical models.
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Capital market -- Mathematical models. |
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Derivative securities -- Mathematical models.
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Derivative securities -- Mathematical models. |
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Financial crises -- Mathematical models.
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Financial crises -- Mathematical models. |
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Financial crises. |
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Financial crises -- Case studies.
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| Genre/Form |
Case studies.
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Electronic books.
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Case studies.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: MacKenzie, Donald A. Engine, not a camera. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2006 0262134608 (DLC) 2005052115 (OCoLC)61278675 |
| ISBN |
9780262278805 (electronic book) |
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0262278804 (electronic book) |
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1423774485 (electronic book) |
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9781423774488 (electronic book) |
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9780262250047 (electronic book) |
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0262250047 (electronic book) |
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0262134608 |
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9780262134606 |
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