Whoosh Goes the Market
Algorithms, Automation, and Alienation
$38.61
- Paperback
208 pages
- Release Date
26 August 2024
Summary
A vivid, fast-paced inside look at financial markets, the people who work on them, and how technology is changing their world (and ours).
Markets are messy, and no one knows this better than traders who work tirelessly to predict what they will do next. In Whoosh Goes the Market, Daniel Scott Souleles takes us into the day-to-day experiences of a team at a large trading firm, revealing what it’s actually like to make and lose money on contemporary capital mar…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780226833798 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0226833798 |
| Author: | Daniel Scott Souleles |
| Publisher: | The University of Chicago Press |
| Imprint: | University of Chicago Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 208 |
| Release Date: | 26 August 2024 |
| Weight: | 313g |
| Dimensions: | 15mm x 152mm x 229mm |
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Critics Review
“This book is a triumph, with a deeply impressive piece of ethnographic research at its core. An essential, compelling, insightful read for anyone interested in the realities of everyday life in today’s financial markets.” * Donald MacKenzie, University of Edinburgh *
Daniel Scott Souleles
Daniel Scott Souleles is an anthropologist and associate professor in the Department of Business Humanities and Law at the Copenhagen Business School. He is the author of Songs of Profit, Songs of Loss: Private Equity, Wealth, and Inequality and a coeditor of People before Markets: An Alternative Casebook.
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