A Preda
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 9842 |
|---|---|
| NOME | A Preda |
| PRENOMES | A |
| SOBRENOME | Preda |
| ASSINATURA | PREDA A |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Edinburgh |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2456-2713 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 39 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 249 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 39 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1999 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 10 |
Navigating the finance, technology, and society nexus
The expanding application of financial technologies, as well as growing participation of consumer investors, has multiplied the forms and functions of finance, deepening its entanglement with social, political, and cultural processes. This interview responds to increasing interest within the journal’s community in the evolving intersections of finance, technology, and society. The conversation foregrounds the role of fintech – understood both nar…
Hybrid materialities, power, and expertise in the era of general purpose technologies
This article proposes three distinct perspectives on and approaches to the study of hybridisation across society, industries, and academia enabled by General Purpose Technologies like AI and blockchain. The term hybridisation is frequently invoked to describe and prescribe human-machine interaction and technological interoperability. Critically assessing processes of hybridisation through the perspectives of (1) materiality, (2) power and (3) exp…
Does social communication make investors stay in the market
The role of online discussions in rallying investors has been highlighted by the GameStop frenzy of 2021. We know little, however, about the effect of online discussions on investor survivorship. Previous studies have emphasized the role of communication with respect to market entry, but not with respect to market survival. Survivorship studies, in turn, have largely focused on the role of financial factors in the investors' decision to quit trad…
Blockchain imaginaries
Frail hope and new frontiers
This guest editorial takes as its starting point the 2021 guest editorial in ANTHROPOLOGY TODAY on the anthropology of blockchain written by Kosmarski and Gordiychuk, in which they discussed the possibilities of blockchain in terms of a 'frail hope of novel, weird, grassroots, decentralized forms of social life'. They also argued that blockchain brought us to 'new frontiers' in politics, economics, capital, votes and subjective feelings. Two year…
Rivalry as a social relationship
Recent sociological conceptualizations of competition emphasize its discursive or institutional aspects, such as rankings. Although macro- and meso-sociological takes on competition are more or less well established, micro-sociological approaches are less so. What does it mean to be in competition from the perspective of everyday social relationships and interactions? A possible answer is provided by the concept of rivalry. In this paper, I exami…
On Sarah L. Quinn’s American Bonds. How Credit Markets Shaped a Nation, Princeton, NJ
The Social Life of Financial Derivatives
Noise
Postmodernism in Sociology
Tags, transaction types and communication in online anonymous markets
The paper examines two interrelated puzzles: the empirical one concerns communication in electronic anonymous markets. If trading screens provide traders with all the needed informational resources (including data interpretation), why do said traders constantly engage in chatter and instant messaging? These latter should be seen as time consuming, as distracting, and as increasing uncertainties. The theoretical puzzle is provided by the need to c…
Clay Spinuzzi, Network
Markets as Networks, Groups, and Communities
After having discussed passes and dribbles in the previous chapter, I will focus now on the teams entering the Weld of transactions, and engaging in plays of games. Players on a team know each other; very often, they know players on the competing team as well: they meet; they exchange stories; they have a common social life. In short, they have relationships. In the present chapter, I discuss relationships in plays of transactions.
Markets, Firms, and Institutions
While markets are connected to and make an impact upon many social institutions (witness here family life, local communities, or government, among others), the modern institution to which markets are connected (and sometimes opposed to) comes from the economic domain as well: the firm. Firms and corporations are nothing new, their role and influence in economic and social life having already been noticed by classical sociologists; in his analysis…
Markets
The Salizada San Moisè, one of Venice’s most elegant streets, is also one of the places where African peddlers align in a row every day, displaying their merchandise on blue plastic sacks rolled out on the pavement (the sacks also serve for transporting their wares). They do this right in front of the über-elegant fashion stores which line both sides of the street. While the peddlers’ merchandise selection is rather limited (mostly handbags, sun-…
Markets, Information, and Economic Expertise
A soccer match involves not only teams on the Weld, but also commentators; sports journalists and the public observing the play make incessant comments upon what is going on in the Weld, before the play, while this latter unfolds, and after the play. Not only that, the players themselves make comments upon the play while playing and also before and after the play. The play of the game always includes the comments upon the play. Similarly, plays o…
Introduction
One cloudy day in March, 2008, I overheard a conversation between two students on the campus where I work, as we all were queuing in front of a cash machine. One of the students, tightly clutching a geography handbook, asked the other whether she had heard about the attack on the bank we were queuing in front of. And no, it wasn’t a terrorist attack: it was a speculative attack. Apparently, the day before, financial traders had launched a coordin…
Conclusion The Sociology of Markets and Its Research Agendas
Subject Industry Studies Economic Sociology Economics Collection: Oxford Scholarship Online
Technology and Market Information
In her book on the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT), Caitlin Zaloom (2006, pp. 54–5, 74) describes how the traders fought over (and resisted) the introduction of computerized trading, only to and themselves later in an environment which didn’t resemble at all the trading pits of the CBOT: impersonal office spaces with rows of computer screens, where the deafening noise of the trading pit had been replaced by computer clicks. Instead of facing each o…
Framing Finance
Information, Knowledge, and Economic Life
As markets have assumed increasing prominence in societies, economic sociology’s insights into their operations have provided some of the most cogent explanations of how they affect our world. The book systematically surveys the most important sociological approaches to markets, taking information as the key concept in the analysis of transactions. It examines the differences between economic and sociological concepts of information, showing how …
Culture and Politics in Economic Development – By V. Bornschier The Politics of Free Markets. The Rise of Neoliberal Economic Policies in Britain, France, Germany, and the United States – By M. Prasad
The influence of disclosure of HIV diagnosis on time to disease progression in a cohort of Romanian children and teens
The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) estimates that in 2004, there were 39.4 million people living with HIV/AIDS worldwide (UNAIDS/WHO Report on the global HIV/AIDS epidemic, 2004). Children less than 15 years of age comprise 2.2 million of these individuals. As more children globally gain access to highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART), more children are growing to the age when disclosure of their HIV status is inevitab…
Frontiers of Capital
Where do Analysts Come from? The Case of Financial Chartism
The Turn to Things
Things and artifacts are usually treated in sociological theory as marginal, irrelevant, or passive with respect to the production of social order. In contrast to that, in the past decade the sociology of knowledge and science has developed several aproaches that stress the processual character of the cognitive relationships between human actors and artifacts. In this perspective, both human actors and things appear as active entities involved in…
The Temporalization of Financial Markets
We analyze several financial market architectures and argue that, in the course of their development, at least some of them moved from a network-based configuration to one based on a scopic mode of coordination. In networks, the mechanism of coordination is relational and selective; coordination emerges from passing things through the pipes that link the actors in the network. A scopic mechanism, in contrast, works through collecting things and b…
The Rise of the Popular Investor
This article examines the knowledge frame in which financial investing became a popular, socially legitimate, and desirable activity in England and France in the nineteenth century. The empirical basis underlying the arguments of the article is provided by investor manuals, newspaper reports, advice brochures, stock price lists, financial charts, and novels from the period. The analysis focuses on the instruments and processes making possible a f…
Informative Prices, Rational Investors
Research for this article was supported by a Barra International Fellowship at the Library Company of Philadelphia and a Gilder Lehrman Fellowship at the New York Historical Society. I thank the anonymous reviewers for their valuable suggestions and criticisms. Yuval Millo and Franck Jovanovic have also provided very useful suggestions and information. A previous version of this article was presented in November 2000 at a workshop titled"Financia…
Order with Things? Humans, Artifacts, and the Sociological Problem of Rule‐Following
Where do Analysts Come from? The Case of Financial Chartism
Information, Knowledge, and Economic Life
As markets have assumed increasing prominence in societies, economic sociology’s insights into their operations have provided some of the most cogent explanations of how they affect our world. The book systematically surveys the most important sociological approaches to markets, taking information as the key concept in the analysis of transactions. It examines the differences between economic and sociological concepts of information, showing how …
Legitimacy and status groups in financial markets
Economic sociologists have argued that financial markets should be analysed as uncertainty-processing social networks and intermediary groups. Networks and intermediaries alone cannot confer legitimacy upon financial actors and transactions. Status groups are a solution to this problem. They emphasize reputation, honour and good social behaviour as stabilizers of collective action, as means of social control and as indicators of legitimacy. I exa…
Financial Knowledge, Documents, and the Structures of Financial Activities
Starting from participant observation and interviews conducted in several European banks, the article examines how financial knowledge is constituted in the process of producing documents like research reports, analyses, and newsletters. The core argument is that documents act as organizational devices, with the help of which relationships are created, maintained, and managed across various contexts. In this perspective, the production of financi…
The Epistemization of Economic Transactions
The article examines the role played by non-academic economic knowledge in advanced economies with respect to market exchanges. Starting from arguments formulated in the neoclassic economic theory, as well as in the newer economic sociology, it shows that practical economic knowledge cannot be either reduced to a simplified notion of information, or regarded as external with respect to economic processes. On the basis of an ethnographic case stud…
Les hommes de la bourse et leurs instruments merveilleux
Le présent article examine le rôle joué par les technologies d'enregistrement et de transmission des cours et par les connaissances financières dans l'organisation des marchés financiers à la fin du 19e siècle. Contrairement à la conviction très répandue que la technologisation du marché a commencé avec l'arrivée de l'ordinateur, cet article démontre que ce processus a commencé dans les années 1860 et s'est poursuivi sans interruption jusqu'à nos…
Tags, transaction types and communication in online anonymous markets
The paper examines two interrelated puzzles: the empirical one concerns communication in electronic anonymous markets. If trading screens provide traders with all the needed informational resources (including data interpretation), why do said traders constantly engage in chatter and instant messaging? These latter should be seen as time consuming, as distracting, and as increasing uncertainties. The theoretical puzzle is provided by the need to c…
The Social Life of Financial Derivatives
Hybrid materialities, power, and expertise in the era of general purpose technologies
This article proposes three distinct perspectives on and approaches to the study of hybridisation across society, industries, and academia enabled by General Purpose Technologies like AI and blockchain. The term hybridisation is frequently invoked to describe and prescribe human-machine interaction and technological interoperability. Critically assessing processes of hybridisation through the perspectives of (1) materiality, (2) power and (3) exp…
Blockchain imaginaries
Rivalry as a social relationship
Recent sociological conceptualizations of competition emphasize its discursive or institutional aspects, such as rankings. Although macro- and meso-sociological takes on competition are more or less well established, micro-sociological approaches are less so. What does it mean to be in competition from the perspective of everyday social relationships and interactions? A possible answer is provided by the concept of rivalry. In this paper, I exami…
Differences in Medicine
The Turn to Things
Things and artifacts are usually treated in sociological theory as marginal, irrelevant, or passive with respect to the production of social order. In contrast to that, in the past decade the sociology of knowledge and science has developed several aproaches that stress the processual character of the cognitive relationships between human actors and artifacts. In this perspective, both human actors and things appear as active entities involved in…
Order with Things? Humans, Artifacts, and the Sociological Problem of Rule‐Following
The Epistemization of Economic Transactions
The article examines the role played by non-academic economic knowledge in advanced economies with respect to market exchanges. Starting from arguments formulated in the neoclassic economic theory, as well as in the newer economic sociology, it shows that practical economic knowledge cannot be either reduced to a simplified notion of information, or regarded as external with respect to economic processes. On the basis of an ethnographic case stud…
The Rise of the Popular Investor
This article examines the knowledge frame in which financial investing became a popular, socially legitimate, and desirable activity in England and France in the nineteenth century. The empirical basis underlying the arguments of the article is provided by investor manuals, newspaper reports, advice brochures, stock price lists, financial charts, and novels from the period. The analysis focuses on the instruments and processes making possible a f…
Financial Knowledge, Documents, and the Structures of Financial Activities
Starting from participant observation and interviews conducted in several European banks, the article examines how financial knowledge is constituted in the process of producing documents like research reports, analyses, and newsletters. The core argument is that documents act as organizational devices, with the help of which relationships are created, maintained, and managed across various contexts. In this perspective, the production of financi…
Les hommes de la bourse et leurs instruments merveilleux
Le présent article examine le rôle joué par les technologies d'enregistrement et de transmission des cours et par les connaissances financières dans l'organisation des marchés financiers à la fin du 19e siècle. Contrairement à la conviction très répandue que la technologisation du marché a commencé avec l'arrivée de l'ordinateur, cet article démontre que ce processus a commencé dans les années 1860 et s'est poursuivi sans interruption jusqu'à nos…
Science
Informative Prices, Rational Investors
Research for this article was supported by a Barra International Fellowship at the Library Company of Philadelphia and a Gilder Lehrman Fellowship at the New York Historical Society. I thank the anonymous reviewers for their valuable suggestions and criticisms. Yuval Millo and Franck Jovanovic have also provided very useful suggestions and information. A previous version of this article was presented in November 2000 at a workshop titled"Financia…
Legitimacy and status groups in financial markets
Economic sociologists have argued that financial markets should be analysed as uncertainty-processing social networks and intermediary groups. Networks and intermediaries alone cannot confer legitimacy upon financial actors and transactions. Status groups are a solution to this problem. They emphasize reputation, honour and good social behaviour as stabilizers of collective action, as means of social control and as indicators of legitimacy. I exa…
Tracing the Boundaries between Vernacular Science and Academic Theories
Research Article| September 01 2006 Tracing the Boundaries between Vernacular Science and Academic Theories: A Reply to Franck Jovanovic Alex Preda Alex Preda Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (2006) 38 (3): 547–554. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-2006-007 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Alex Preda; Tracing the Boundaries betw…
Emotions in Finance. Distrust and Uncertainty in Global Markets – J. Pixley
Gravity's Shadow
Culture and Politics in Economic Development – By V. Bornschier The Politics of Free Markets. The Rise of Neoliberal Economic Policies in Britain, France, Germany, and the United States – By M. Prasad
The influence of disclosure of HIV diagnosis on time to disease progression in a cohort of Romanian children and teens
The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) estimates that in 2004, there were 39.4 million people living with HIV/AIDS worldwide (UNAIDS/WHO Report on the global HIV/AIDS epidemic, 2004). Children less than 15 years of age comprise 2.2 million of these individuals. As more children globally gain access to highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART), more children are growing to the age when disclosure of their HIV status is inevitab…
Frontiers of Capital
Where do Analysts Come from? The Case of Financial Chartism
The Temporalization of Financial Markets
We analyze several financial market architectures and argue that, in the course of their development, at least some of them moved from a network-based configuration to one based on a scopic mode of coordination. In networks, the mechanism of coordination is relational and selective; coordination emerges from passing things through the pipes that link the actors in the network. A scopic mechanism, in contrast, works through collecting things and b…
Markets as Networks, Groups, and Communities
After having discussed passes and dribbles in the previous chapter, I will focus now on the teams entering the Weld of transactions, and engaging in plays of games. Players on a team know each other; very often, they know players on the competing team as well: they meet; they exchange stories; they have a common social life. In short, they have relationships. In the present chapter, I discuss relationships in plays of transactions.
Markets, Firms, and Institutions
While markets are connected to and make an impact upon many social institutions (witness here family life, local communities, or government, among others), the modern institution to which markets are connected (and sometimes opposed to) comes from the economic domain as well: the firm. Firms and corporations are nothing new, their role and influence in economic and social life having already been noticed by classical sociologists; in his analysis…
Markets
The Salizada San Moisè, one of Venice’s most elegant streets, is also one of the places where African peddlers align in a row every day, displaying their merchandise on blue plastic sacks rolled out on the pavement (the sacks also serve for transporting their wares). They do this right in front of the über-elegant fashion stores which line both sides of the street. While the peddlers’ merchandise selection is rather limited (mostly handbags, sun-…
Markets, Information, and Economic Expertise
A soccer match involves not only teams on the Weld, but also commentators; sports journalists and the public observing the play make incessant comments upon what is going on in the Weld, before the play, while this latter unfolds, and after the play. Not only that, the players themselves make comments upon the play while playing and also before and after the play. The play of the game always includes the comments upon the play. Similarly, plays o…
Introduction
One cloudy day in March, 2008, I overheard a conversation between two students on the campus where I work, as we all were queuing in front of a cash machine. One of the students, tightly clutching a geography handbook, asked the other whether she had heard about the attack on the bank we were queuing in front of. And no, it wasn’t a terrorist attack: it was a speculative attack. Apparently, the day before, financial traders had launched a coordin…
Conclusion The Sociology of Markets and Its Research Agendas
Subject Industry Studies Economic Sociology Economics Collection: Oxford Scholarship Online
Technology and Market Information
In her book on the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT), Caitlin Zaloom (2006, pp. 54–5, 74) describes how the traders fought over (and resisted) the introduction of computerized trading, only to and themselves later in an environment which didn’t resemble at all the trading pits of the CBOT: impersonal office spaces with rows of computer screens, where the deafening noise of the trading pit had been replaced by computer clicks. Instead of facing each o…
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