Introduction

1

I

General Concerns: Economy, Materiality, Power

1

Economic Markets and the Rise of Interactive Agencements: From Prosthetic Agencies to Habilitated Agencies
Michel Callon

29

2

The Centrality of Materiality: Economic Theorizing from Xenophon to Home Economics and Beyond
Richard Swedberg

57

3

Command Performance: Exploring What STS Thinks It Takes to Build a Market
Philip Mirowski and Edward Nik-Khah

89

II

Infrastructure

4

The Finitist Accountant
David Hatherly, David Leung and Donald MacKenzie

131

5

Global Financial Technologies: Scoping Systems That Raise the World
Karin Knorr Cetina and Barbara Grimpe

161

6

The Politics of Patent Law and Its Material Effects: The Changing Relationship between Universities and the Marketplace
Elizabeth Popp Berman

191

III

Technology and the Material Arrangements of the Market

7

Technology, Agency, and Financial Price Data
Alex Preda

217

8

Tools of the Trade: The Socio-Technology of Arbitrage in a Wall Street Trading Room
Daniel Beunza and David Stark

253

9

Trading-Room Telephones and the Identification of Counterparts
Fabian Muniesa

291

IV

Technology, Economy, Use

10

Understanding and Reframing the Electronic Consumption Experience: The Interactional Ambiguities of Mediated Coordination
Christian Licoppe

317

11

Six Degrees of Reputation: The Use and Abuse of Online Review and Recommendation Systems
Shay David and Trevor Pinch

341

12

Transfer Troubles: Outsourcing Information Technology in Higher Education
Nicholas J. Rowland and Thomas F. Gieryn

375

About the Authors

393

Index

395