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Markets

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Markets
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Armin Beverungen
By (author) Philip Mirowski
By (author) Edward Nik-Khah
By (author) Jens Schroeter
SeriesIn Search of Media
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:144
Dimensions(mm): Height 178,Width 127
ISBN/Barcode 9781517906467
ClassificationsDewey:302.23
Audience
General
Professional & Vocational

Publishing Details

Publisher University of Minnesota Press
Imprint University of Minnesota Press
Publication Date 29 January 2019
Publication Country United States

Description

A media theory of markets Markets abound in media-but a media theory of markets is still emerging. Anthropology offers media archaeologies of markets, and the sociology of markets and finance unravels how contemporary financial markets have witnessed a media technological arms race. Building on such work, this volume brings together key thinkers of economic studies with German media theory, describes the central role of the media specificity of markets in new detail and inflects them in three distinct ways. Nik-Khah and Mirowski show how the denigration of human cognition and the concomitant faith in computation prevalent in contemporary market-design practices rely on neoliberal conceptions of information in markets. Schroeter confronts the asymmetries and abstractions that characterize money as a medium and explores the absence of money in media. Beverungen situates these inflections and gathers further elements for a politically and historically attuned media theory of markets concerned with contemporary phenomena such as high-frequency trading and cryptocurrencies.

Author Biography

Philip Mirowski is professor of history and philosophy of science and Carl Koch Professor of Economics at the University of Notre Dame. He is the author of More Heat than Light, Machine Dreams, ScienceMart, and Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, and, with Edward Nik-Khah, of The Knowledge We Have Lost in Information. Edward Nik-Khah is professor of economics at Roanoke College. He is the author, with Philip Mirowski, of The Knowledge We Have Lost in Information. Jens Schroeter is professor of media studies at the University of Bonn. He is the author of 3D, as well as a number of books in German. Armin Beverungen is lecturer in media studies at the University of Siegen.