Section: Staff Profiles
Donald MacKenzie
- Name
- Professor Donald MacKenzie
- Title
- Organisation
- Sociology, School of Social and Political Science
University of Edinburgh - Address
- 6.26 Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square Edinburgh UK EH8 9LD
- Telephone
- +44 (0)131 650 3980
- D.Mackenzie@ed.ac.uk
- URL
- http://www.sociology.ed.ac.uk/staff_profiles/mackenzie_donald
Office hours
Thursdays 2.30 - 4.30 p.m. (in teaching weeks)
Research Interests
My current research is on the sociology of markets (especially credit-derivatives markets and carbon-emissions markets): see Social Studies of Finance: ESRC Professorial Fellowship Project. I've worked in the past on topics ranging from the sociology of nuclear weapons to the meaning of “proof” in the context of computer systems critical to safety or security.
Research Students
I'm keen to work with PhD students who have innovative project ideas in fields ranging from the sociology of science and technology to economic sociology (especially the social studies of finance, on which 7 of my current students are working).
Selected Recent Work
Beneath all the toxic acronyms lies a basic cultural issue. Article in the Financial Times
My most recent books are An Engine, Not a Camera: How Financial Models Shape Markets (MIT Press, 2006; publisher's note); Do Economists Make Markets? On the Performativity of Economics, co-edited with Fabian Muniesa and Lucia Siu (Princeton, 2007; publisher's note); and Material Markets: How Economic Agents are Constructed (Oxford, 2009; publisher's note).
Current downloadable working papers:
The Credit Crisis as a Problem in the Sociology of Knowledge. Donald MacKenzie, Nov 2009
'Safer than Safe', essay review of Tett, Fool's Gold, for London Review of Books, Donald MacKenzie, June 2009
'Hedge Funds', essay for London Review of Books, Donald MacKenzie, Nov 2008
'Broker's Ear', essay for London Review of Books, Donald MacKenzie, Aug 2008
'The Credit Crisis and the End-of-the-World Trade', essay for London Review of Books, Donald MacKenzie, May 2008
'Making Things the Same', Donald MacKenzie, Feb 2008 (.pdf)
'The Finitist Accountant', David Hatherley, David Leung and Donald MacKenzie, April 2007 (.pdf file)
'Finding the Ratchet: The Political Economy of Carbon Trading', essay for London Review of Books. Donald MacKenzie, March 2007 (.pdf)
'The Material Production of Virtuality: Innovation, Cultural Geography, and Facticity in Derivatives Markets. Donald MacKenzie, December 2006 (.pdf)
'Humming the Wedding March', essay for London Review of Books. Donald MacKenzie, November 2006 (.pdf file)
'Producing Accounts: Finitism, Technology and Rule-Following', Donald MacKenzie, November 2006 (.pdf file)
'Assembling an Economic Actor: The Agencement of a Hedge Fund', Iain Hardie, Donald MacKenzie, May 2006 (.pdf file)
'A Price is a Social Thing: Towards a Material Sociology of Arbitrage ', Daniel Beunza, Iain Hardie, Donald MacKenzie, January 2006 (.pdf file)
Qualifications
- BSc (University of Edinburgh)
- PhD (University of Edinburgh)
This page was published on 9 December 2009