Index

action: as external internality 79; political 86

actor-network 8-10, 146, 148; criticism of 108-9; and Marxism 147-9

Agamben, G. 86

agency 9, 60; calculative 69

AIDS 119

Amazon.com 193

anthropology: of consumption 44-5; of economics 101-2, 114; of science and technology 12, 101

anti-politics 86; and calculation 87, 88, 89 apresentation 131

Arendt, H.

Arrow, K. 101

Atlantic Fordism 142, 150-1

Balfour Beatty 92

Bank of International Settlement survey

130

Barings 165

Barry, A. 18-19, 68, 76

Bartiromo, M. 168

Beck, U. 16, 104

Blodget, H. 170

Bloomberg 125, 168; channel 173

Boase, Massimmi and Politt 187

Boltanski, L. 113

Bourdieu, P. 61, 116, 117, 120

Boyer, R. 150

brand 21, 186; marketing 21, 184-6; and intellectual property law 188-9; as object 183-4

Bretton Woods Agreement 130

Bre-X 168

bridgehead centers 137-8

British Sugar v. James Robertson 195-6 bro-ing 192

BSE 91

Bush, V. 101

calculation 11-12, 38, 48n25, 53-4; cultural 59, 63; and markets 52;

political effects of 16, 89, 94; politics of 87-8; see also economic calculation ‘calculativeness’ 53, 54, 56, 57-8 Callard, FJ. 148

Callon, M. 17, 52-64, 86, 148, 192-3;

actor-network theory 8-9; calculation

12-14, 69, 87-8; economic sociology

7-8, 51; economics 18-19;

Canadian Royal Commission on New

Reproductive Technologies 71-8 Canadian society 72-4 capitalism 14-15, 112-13 car 31-2; purchase of 52, 88 Carrier, J.G. 61-2

Castells, M. 129 Chamberlin, E. 33-4, 36-7 citizenship 103

CNBC 168, 172, 173-4

CNNfn 168

Cochoy, F. 36, 185, 190

Commission of Enquiry 70 Compaq 191-2 competition 34, 38, 45, 63; monopolistic

33; and patents 69 computer screen 123-4, 126-7, 129;

electronic broker (eBs) 125, 126, 127; introduction of 131; reality 133;

Reuters conversational dealing 125, 127

consumer rights 54 consumers’ attachment 36, 37, 38-40,

43-4, 45; production of 108-9 consumers’ detachment 38-40, 41 contestation 85, 87, 105 co-operation 30, 116-17 corporate branding 189-90 cultural calculations 59, 63 cultural turn 12, 143 culture 13, 62, 108, 153; and economy 58, 63; of markets 57, 64

decent society 76-7 descriptions 78; as basis for action 78, 197 digital divide 115, 153

disease gene patents 69 disentanglement 52, 53, 58, 64, 78,

107-10; and marketing 62, 63; see also entanglement

distributed cognition 36,38, 42, 45, 48n25 donor insemination 74-5

dot.com bubble 165, 170

du Pont 68

Durkheim, E.

e-commerce 42-3, 162 economic actors 4, 5, 28, 57, 59 economic calculation 12, 53, 88 economic knowledge 5-6, 15, 20, 22-3 economic sociology 2, 22, 56, 64, 115-16,

143; critique of 13; and science and technology studies 7, 8, 9-12 economics 10, 22, 47n11, 60-2;

mediatisation of 21; and politics 15-19, 143; as science 101-2; as technology 3-4, 10

economy of qualities 30, 35, 40-1, 43, 44-6

economy of relations 45 entanglement 52, 53, 58, 107, 109; hot

70; production of 108

Epstein, S. 119

ethical principle 66-7, 69-70, 77, 78 Euromoney 167

European Council 155

exchange 53-4, 60; gift 55; see also market exchange

exchange controls 130 expert knowledge 6, 16, 17, 18, 20-1, 29, 86

experts 91, 95, 96n13, 105, 114-15, 176 externalities 18, 55, 56, 64, 66, 102;

generation of 69, 74; internal 18, 70, 77

financial audiences 169-70

financial information 167, 171, 172-5 financial media 167-8

Financial Services Authority (FSA) 179

Financial Times 165, 169

Finland 155

Fligstein, N. 122

flow architecture 122, 123, 132-5 foot-and-mouth disease 92

foreign exchange market 124, 130, 135-6 Foucault, M. 4, 120

framing 13, 16, 18, 55-8, 66, 109; ambiguity of 57, 60; as blocking device 68; and calculation 87-8; devices 72; instability of 89; as marketing 62-4

France 115

Future Laboratory 191

Gadrey, Jean 40-3, 44

Ghana 20

Gibson-Graham, J.K. 112

Giddens, A. 136

Gilette 187

global book 138-9

global markets 135-6; temporality of 136-8

global reflex system (GRS) 123-4, 126, 133

GMO 92, 104, 106, 110

Goffman, E. 59

goods 29-34, 108; marketing of 63; singularization of 35-8, 41-5, 47n18; see also attachment, qualification of goods, trade mark

government: technologies of 85 governmentality 61

Gramsci, A. 150, 151

Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) 136

Habermas, J. 118, 119

Hatfield rail crash 92-4

homo economicus 13-14, 53, 54, 56

hybrid forums 28, 30, 46

information 2, 7, 70, 71, 75; acting on 68, 77-9; effect of 67; production of 66, 76

information and communication technologies 42-3, 45, 125, 129, 158

InfoSpace 170 innovation 8, 9-10, 19, 153, 157, 158,

187

intellectual property 154, 156-8 intellectual property laws 158, 188 International Monetary Fund (IMF) 115,

154

interbank currency markets 124

International Meridian Conference 136 Internet 42-3, 115; see also information and communication technologies

IVF 74

J. Walter Thompson 186-7 Japan 130

Jessop, B.

Jospin, L. 115

Kindleberger, C. 169

Knorr-Cetina, K. 11, 19, 60 knowledge 2, 19, 29, 69, 78, 157, 171;

accumulation of 158; production of 104, 105, 117, 119-20, 156-7; see also economic knowledge, expert knowledge, non-expert knowledge knowledge-based economy 66, 142, 152-55, 160-1; emergence of 152, 154; and national states 155-8; representative terms of 153

Latour, B. 8, 9, 109

Law, J. 146

Laws of the Markets 3, 16, 48n25, 66-7, 84 Levi's 187, 192

Levitt, T. 185-6

Luckman, T. 131

Lury, C. 21 Lynx 188

Mackenzie, D. 10-11

Manhattan Project 101 Margalit 76 market boundaries 57, 58-9, 63, 102 market exchange 52, 54, 58 marketing 5, 59, 62-4, 101; development of 184-5; social 190-1; see also brand marketing

marketing mix 186 markets 51, 52, 55, 57, 58, 60, 63, 133;

behaviour 15, 54; and democracy 103; dynamics of 33; dual logics of 108; embedded 122; evolution of 28; organisation of 16, 28-9, 105-6; politicisation of 106-7; and science 101-2

Marx, K. 56, 146-8 Meadel, C. 37-9 measurement 11, 78, 88-92, 95 media 165-7, 176-9

Mekeo 70

Merrill Lynch 170 meta-governance 155-6 metal fatigue 92-4 metrological regimes 89-92 metrology 11, 95, 96n12 Microsoft 191

Miller, D. 52-4, 56, 58, 61-2 Mirage Studios v. Counter-Feat Clothing

189

Mitchell, A. 193

Mitsubishi 189

Money Channel 168 MSNBC 172

NASDAQ 178 national state 155-9

Nelson, R.R. 101 neo-liberalism 4, 61, 106-7 network 19, 60, 109, 122, 128-9, 139 network market 129-30, 132 new economy 18-21, 142; see also

knowledge-based economy New York 124, 126

Nike 191

non-expert knowledge 5, 8, 20 non-experts 176

Nowotny, H. 70

OECD 115, 154 opinion 73 overflowing 64, 59, 57, 52, 67; and com­

petitiveness 66; consequences of 102

Papua New Guinea 70

patent 66-8, 78; and invention 68;

blocking 68-9 Playstation 192 Polanyi, K. 13, 58, 146 political economy 14, 51; cultural 143-5, 160-1

political space 102-3 politics 87; of calculation 87; and the

political 86; and technological economy 94-95; technology of 84-5 pollution 88-91 post-Fordism 149-51 Pottage, A.

qualification of goods 30-1, 34-6 qualification of products 29, 30, 34-5, 37 qualification-requalification: and

marketing 185; process 32-5, 37-40, 42-5

Rabeharisoa, V 37-9, 86 Railtrack 92-3

Rawls, J. 118 Red Bull 192 religion 76 representative democracy 84-5 Reuters 125, 168; Monitor 131-2 risk 78, 104

Rose, N. 4 Rukeyser, L. 168

Schumpeter, J. 9, 10 Schutz, A. 131 science and technology studies (STS) 1, 3,

7, 8-12, 148 screen 172-3; see also computer screen Serco 91 Serres, M. 9 Siegler, M. 70 Singapore 126 Slater, D. 15 Smirnoff 188

social actors 57, 59-60, 106, 113, 119; see also economic actors

social movements 104, 118, 119 Sony 191

star investment analysis 170 Stengers, I. 87, 94 Strathern, M. 18, 197-8 supply and demand 29, 34, 35, 37-8, 45 Sydney 124

Tarde, G. 169 technology 8, 9-10, 19, 68, 153; economy

as 4, 20; of government 2, 4, 5, 85 Telerate 125

telex 131 terminals 19, 125-6 Thomas, N. 53, 60 Thrift, N. 5

Tiananmen Square 86

time zones 138

Tokyo 126

Touraine, A. 119

trade mark 188, 189,196; law 188, 204 traders 124, 127-8, 132

trading floors 124-6

trading room 130 transactions 29, 53-4, 58, 60, 107, 108;

and alienation 55-6; over-the-counter 124, 130

translation 8

Tsing, A. 168

United Kingdom 89, 130; government laboratories 91-2; Health and Safety Executive 93; political debate in 113; railway network 93

USA 130, 155; knowledge-based economy 154; presidential elections 85; times 136

Versace 188

Virgin 190

virtualism 4, 61-2

voting 84-5

Waldron, J. 85-6, 87

Wall Street 167

Wall Street Journal 165, 169

Weber, M. 85, 146

Weir, L. 72

Wilkinson Sword 187

working class movement 106

World Bank 154

World Economic Forum 155

World Trade Organisation (WTO) 154,

157

Zurich 124, 126