Donald A Mackenzie
Biographic Data
| ID | 273799 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Donald A Mackenzie |
| GIVEN NAMES | Donald A |
| FAMILY NAME | Mackenzie |
| SIGNATURE | MACKENZIE D A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Sciences en Société |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 360 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1915 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Teutonic Myth and Legend
Do Economists Make Markets?: On the Performativity of Economics
Material Markets: How Economic Agents Are Constructed
Financial markets, processes, and instruments are often difficult to fathom; the credit crisis highlights both their importance and their fragility. Donald MacKenzie is one of the most perceptive analysts of the workings of the financial world. In this book, he argues that economic agents and markets need to be analyzed in their full materiality: their physicality, their corporeality, their technicality. Markets are populated not by disembodied, …
An Engine, Not a Camera: How Financial Models Shape Markets
In An Engine, Not a Camera, Donald MacKenzie argues that the emergence of modern economic theories of finance affected financial markets in fundamental ways. These new, Nobel Prize-winning theories, based on elegant mathematical models of markets, were not simply external analyses but intrinsic parts of economic processes. Paraphrasing Milton Friedman, MacKenzie says that economic models are an engine of inquiry rather than a camera to reproduce …
Knowing Machines: Essays on Technical Change
Ranging from broad inquiries into the roles of economics and sociology in the explanation of technological change to an argument for the possibility of "uninventing" nuclear weapons, this selection of Donald MacKenzie's essays provides a solid introduction to the style and the substance of the sociology of technology. The essays are tied together by their explorations of connections (primarily among technology, society, and knowledge) and by thei…
Inventing accuracy: An historical sociology of nuclear missile guidance
Winner of the 1993 Ludwik Fleck Prize presented by the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S).Among books on the arms race, Donald MacKenzie's stands out for its welcome demystification of the black box of nuclear weapons technology. MacKenzie follows one line of technology - strategic ballistic missile guidance - through a succession of weapons systems to reveal the ordinary workings of a world that is neither awesome nor unstoppable. He unc…
The Social shaping of technology: How the Refrigerator Got Its Hum
Statistics in Britain, 1865-1930: The Social Construction of Scientific Knowledge
A Celtic God on a Scottish Sculptured Stone
The Meigle stone depicts a boar and a wolf with a mythological figure in between. The article discusses possible parallels from Europe and Asia
Colour Symbolism
COLOUR symbolism, as a line of anthropological research, is worthier of closer attention than is usually accorded to it.In this paper, which is necessarily limited in range and extent, I can do little more than emphasise the importance and wealth of the available data, and indicate by some examples how the colour clue may assist us in investigating problems of perennial interest.Certain aspects of the subject have engaged attention from time to t…
Easter Eggs in Scotland
Myths of Babylonia and Assyria
Myths of Babylonia and Assyria
An Engine, Not a Camera: How Financial Models Shape Markets
In An Engine, Not a Camera, Donald MacKenzie argues that the emergence of modern economic theories of finance affected financial markets in fundamental ways. These new, Nobel Prize-winning theories, based on elegant mathematical models of markets, were not simply external analyses but intrinsic parts of economic processes. Paraphrasing Milton Friedman, MacKenzie says that economic models are an engine of inquiry rather than a camera to reproduce …
The Social shaping of technology: How the Refrigerator Got Its Hum
Material Markets: How Economic Agents Are Constructed
Financial markets, processes, and instruments are often difficult to fathom; the credit crisis highlights both their importance and their fragility. Donald MacKenzie is one of the most perceptive analysts of the workings of the financial world. In this book, he argues that economic agents and markets need to be analyzed in their full materiality: their physicality, their corporeality, their technicality. Markets are populated not by disembodied, …
Colour Symbolism
COLOUR symbolism, as a line of anthropological research, is worthier of closer attention than is usually accorded to it.In this paper, which is necessarily limited in range and extent, I can do little more than emphasise the importance and wealth of the available data, and indicate by some examples how the colour clue may assist us in investigating problems of perennial interest.Certain aspects of the subject have engaged attention from time to t…
Myths of Babylonia and Assyria
Myths of Babylonia and Assyria
Easter Eggs in Scotland
Colour Symbolism
COLOUR symbolism, as a line of anthropological research, is worthier of closer attention than is usually accorded to it.In this paper, which is necessarily limited in range and extent, I can do little more than emphasise the importance and wealth of the available data, and indicate by some examples how the colour clue may assist us in investigating problems of perennial interest.Certain aspects of the subject have engaged attention from time to t…
A Celtic God on a Scottish Sculptured Stone
The Meigle stone depicts a boar and a wolf with a mythological figure in between. The article discusses possible parallels from Europe and Asia
Statistics in Britain, 1865-1930: The Social Construction of Scientific Knowledge
The Social shaping of technology: How the Refrigerator Got Its Hum
Inventing accuracy: An historical sociology of nuclear missile guidance
Winner of the 1993 Ludwik Fleck Prize presented by the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S).Among books on the arms race, Donald MacKenzie's stands out for its welcome demystification of the black box of nuclear weapons technology. MacKenzie follows one line of technology - strategic ballistic missile guidance - through a succession of weapons systems to reveal the ordinary workings of a world that is neither awesome nor unstoppable. He unc…
Knowing Machines: Essays on Technical Change
Ranging from broad inquiries into the roles of economics and sociology in the explanation of technological change to an argument for the possibility of "uninventing" nuclear weapons, this selection of Donald MacKenzie's essays provides a solid introduction to the style and the substance of the sociology of technology. The essays are tied together by their explorations of connections (primarily among technology, society, and knowledge) and by thei…
An Engine, Not a Camera: How Financial Models Shape Markets
In An Engine, Not a Camera, Donald MacKenzie argues that the emergence of modern economic theories of finance affected financial markets in fundamental ways. These new, Nobel Prize-winning theories, based on elegant mathematical models of markets, were not simply external analyses but intrinsic parts of economic processes. Paraphrasing Milton Friedman, MacKenzie says that economic models are an engine of inquiry rather than a camera to reproduce …
Do Economists Make Markets?: On the Performativity of Economics
Material Markets: How Economic Agents Are Constructed
Financial markets, processes, and instruments are often difficult to fathom; the credit crisis highlights both their importance and their fragility. Donald MacKenzie is one of the most perceptive analysts of the workings of the financial world. In this book, he argues that economic agents and markets need to be analyzed in their full materiality: their physicality, their corporeality, their technicality. Markets are populated not by disembodied, …
Teutonic Myth and Legend
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