Talk at NYU-IPK’s Co-Opting AI: Finance
Reviews
“This is finally the much-needed story of the automation of the most powerful and prominent stock exchanges of the world – the LSE and NYSE. An authoritative contemporary history going up to the present that brings out the hidden intersections between group structures, cultural beliefs, technology, and financial markets. A must-read for economic sociologists and anthropologists, sociologists of professions, and STS scholars studying infrastructures and technology.”
Karin Knorr Cetina
Otto Borchert Distinguished Service Professor,
University of Chicago
“There are no heroes or villains in Automating Finance, only an array of forces conspiring more or less unwittingly to transform the exchanges from almost familial clubs into digital marketplaces. […] The historical detail is indeed invaluable, because it provides rich context for conversations about how markets have evolved and what their current structure may say about society more broadly.”
Alexander Hickox
CFA Institute
“Automating Finance is relevant for researchers and students of economic sociology, but its contributions travel beyond this with tremendous implications for other fields, including management, organisational sociology, public administration and public policy. Finance professionals would also enjoy the book, as they could learn how technical entrepreneurs manoeuvred through institutional, structural and organisational dynamics in automating finance.”
M Kerem Coban,
LSE Review of Books
“A remarkable book that chronicles the shift towards automated trading in American and British financial markets”
Anonymous reviewer
Automating Finance 