Making Markets by Mitchel Y Abolafia

Making Markets by Mitchel Y Abolafia

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An ethnography of Wall Street culture, this book offers a picture of how the market and its denizens work. Not merely masses of individuals striving independently, here, markets appear as socially constructed institutions in which the behaviour of traders is suspended in a web of customs.

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Making Markets by Mitchel Y Abolafia

An ethnography of Wall Street culture, this book offers a picture of how the market and its denizens work. Not merely masses of individuals striving independently, here, markets appear as socially constructed institutions in which the behaviour of traders is suspended in a web of customs.
Abolafia, Mitchel Y.: - Mitchel Y. Abolafia is Professor at the Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy, University at Albany, State University of New York. He has taught at Cornell's Johnson School of Management and MIT's Sloan School of Management and is the author of Making Markets: Opportunism and Restraint on Wall Street.
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ISBN 13 9780674543249
ISBN 10 0674543246
Title Making Markets
Author Mitchel Y Abolafia
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Hardback
Publisher Harvard University Press
Year published 1997-01-01
Number of pages 225
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