Description: A pioneering work in the social studies of finance describes how the emergence of modern finance theory has affected financial markets in fundamental ways--as an engine that shapes them rather than a camera that reproduces their every detail.
Review Quotes: An Engine, Not a Camera provides an insightful appreciation of the ways in which financial models influence and shape the world they seek to understand.--Anthony Hopwood, Times Higher Education Supplement--
A brilliant, extremely lucid account of the connections between financial economics and the development of futures, options, and derivatives markets between the 1950s and 2001.
--Neil Fligstein, American Journal of Sociology--