Assembling an Economic Actor
The Agencement of a Hedge Fund
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3385246 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Iain Hardie (0000-0002-4694-3755, University of Edinburgh), Donald Mackenzie (0000-0002-1860-8116, University of Edinburgh) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 55 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 57-80 |
| Publication date | 2007-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Sociological Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0038-0261 • E-ISSN: 1467-954X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1467-954x.2007.00682.x |
| OpenAlex | W2095975515 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 83 |
| References cited | 26 |
Michel Callon has conceptualised economic actors as made up of socio-technical agencements: collectives of human beings, technical devices, algorithms, and so on. This article reports a pilot, partially observational study of a hedge fund, a category of actor in financial markets that is of growing importance but that has so far attracted little attention in economic sociology. It draws on that study, and on interviews with other financial market practitioners, to delineate what is involved in viewing such an actor as made up of an agencement, and discusses the merits of doing so
Assemblage (archaeology · Economic sociology · Hedge · Management and Organizational Studies · Weber, Simmel, Sociological Theory
From users to co-creators
Affective assemblages
The performativity, performance and lively practices in financial stability press conferences
Talking objects
To start practice theorizing anew
Medien als soziotechnische Arrangements
The algorithmic principal
The sagacity of the surround
Everyday Debt and Credit
(Re-)assembling the gilt-edged market
Gambiarras, Quilombos and Pachamama
Performing the religious economy in nineteenth-century evangelical missions
Political exchanges in the French funeral market
Globalization as it happens
Predicting what you'll do tomorrow
Producing trust, knowledge and expertise in financial markets
Biochar carbon markets
Performing piracy
Home Price Dynamics
Seeking Alpha or Creating Beta? Charting the Rise of Hedge Fund-Based Financial Ecosystems
Hedge Funds as ‘War Machine’
Entrepreneurial actions in energy transition
The democratization of finance? Promises, outcomes and conditions
A perfect match? The co-creation of the tomato and beneficial insects markets
Alternative food networks as “market agencements ”
Policy failure mobilities
Geographies of money and finance I
Calculated Affection? Charting the Complex Economy of Home Purchase
Quality is an Illusion”
How ‘matter matters’ for morality
Everyday geographies of market transition
Decentring ingenuity
The steel plant as assemblage
On (not) assembling a market for sustainable energy
Commentary
A care-infused market tale
The politics of European agencements
Governing the future
Lobbying under Pressure
Sorting out economic forms
The Long Twilight of Gold
Devices and Desires
Market Failures and Market Framings
Rethinking agency in International Relations
Agencement in housing markets
Situating Border Control
Cultures of choice
Algorhythmic governance
Teeb Begins Now
Unpacking financial subjectivities
The currencies of carbon
Economics as intervention
Are policy failures mobile? An investigation of the Advanced Metering Infrastructure Program in the State of Victoria, Australia
An Introduction to Market Devices
Modes of Power and the Re-Conceptualization of Elites
Stable destabilising? Rethinking images of temporality
Economic Embeddedness and Materiality in a Financial Market Setting
Reading sound
Financial markets as commensurating machines
Beyond ethnographic scriptocentrism
Built to last
Population Objects
From social democracy towards social neoliberalism
Performativity and the Politics of Equipping for Calculation
Theagencementof Industrial Branch Life Assurance
Becoming Peoples
The haptic visuality of financial trading
The common places of alternative finance
Live Baccarat calculations
The -ography of markets (or, the responsibilities of market studies)
Representing and Performing Businesses
Sold out? Reconfiguring consumer demand through the secondary digital ticket market
Enacting novel agencements
From market agencements to market agencing
Economic circuits in Madagascar
Agencing practices
Consumer credit default and collections
Speculating on sovereignty
Practices and meanings of non-professional stock-trading in Taiwan
Insurgent capitalism
Political markets
Distributed execution in illiquid times
Time and the constitution of markets
Assemblage
Global Capital and National Governments
Principles of Economic Sociology
Cognition in the Wild
How a Cockpit Remembers Its Speeds
Tools of the trade
The Neural Basis of Economic Decision-Making in the Ultimatum Game
Prospect Theory
The laws of the markets
An Engine, Not a Camera
Economic Action and Social Structure
Unpacking collaboration
A Behavioral Model of Rational Choice
A thousand plateaus
Some Elements of a Sociology of Translation
Ambiguous numbers
Global Microstructures
Long-Term Capital Management and the sociology of arbitrage
Turning Callon the right way up
| Unique citing works | 83 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 4,37 |
| Citation span | 2007 - 2026 (20) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 82 |