An engine, not a camera how financial models shape markets
Donald MacKenzie
- Cambridge, Mass MIT Press 2006
- x, 377 páginas ilustraciones
- Inside technology .
1. Performing theory -- 2. Transforming finance -- 3. Theory and practice -- 4. Tests, anomalies, and monsters -- 5. Pricing options -- 6. Pits, bodies, and theorems -- 7. The fall -- 8. Arbitrage -- 9. Models and markets.
This pioneering work in the social studies of finance describes how the emergence of modern finance theory has affected financial markets in fundamental ways. Paraphrasing Milton Friedman, the author says that economic models are an engine of inquiry rather than a camera to reproduce empirical facts.
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Mercado de capitales --Modelos matemáticos Derivados financieros --Modelos matemáticos Crisis financiera --Modelos matemáticos Crisis financiera --Casis de estudio Modelos econométricos