Living in a Material World : Economic Sociology Meets Science and Technology Studies.

Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- I - General Concerns: Economy, Materiality, Power -- 1 - Economic Markets and the Rise of Interactive Agencements: From Prosthetic Agencies to Habilitated Agencies -- 2 - The Centrality of Materiality: Economic Theorizing from Xenophon to Home Economics and Beyond -- 3 - Command Performance: Exploring What STS Thinks It Takes to Build a Market -- II - Infrastructure -- 4 - The Finitist Accountant -- 5 - Global Financial Technologies: Scoping Systems That Raise the World -- 6 - The Politics of Patent Law and Its Material Effects: The Changing Relationship between Universities and the Marketplace -- III - Technology and the Material Arrangements of the Market -- 7 - Technology, Agency, and Financial Price Data -- 8 - Tools of the Trade: The Socio-Technology of Arbitrage in a Wall Street Trading Room -- 9 - Trading-Room Telephones and the Identification of Counterparts -- IV - Technology, Economy, Use -- 10 - Understanding and Reframing the Electronic Consumption Experience: The Interactional Ambiguities of Mediated Coordination -- 11 - Six Degrees of Reputation: The Use and Abuse of Online Review and Recommendation Systems -- 12 - Transfer Troubles: Outsourcing Information Technology in Higher Education -- About the Authors -- Index.

Understanding the intersection of economic sociology and science and technology studies through the idea of materiality.

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