Interrogating the Algorithm: Debt, Derivatives and the Social Reconstruction of Stock Market Trading

Critical Sociology

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 747-761

  Snider, Laureen ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

capitalism; corporations; crime and control; surveillance; technology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84907207685     PISSN: 08969205     EISSN: 15691632     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0896920513504603     Document Type: Article

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