Opening the black boxes of global finance

Review of International Political Economy

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 555-576

  MacKenzie, Donald ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Arbitrage; Black box; Ethnoaccountancy; Option pricing; Regulation; Science studies

Indexed keywords

EID: 27144557258     PISSN: 09692290     EISSN: 14664526     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09692290500240222     Document Type: Article

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