Ambiguous numbers: Trading technologies and interpretation in financial markets

Zaloom, Caitlin

doi:10.1525/ae.2003.30.2.258

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“…Conceiving speculation in this way, 2 anthropologists can address what makes such ventures a viable mode of action for a broad swath of the populationnot just the narrow category of professional financial risk-takers so ably analysed in the anthropological literature (Maurer 2006;Miyazaki 2006 andRiles 2004;Zaloom 2003). It will be argued that trust is one element in a spectrum of motivations involved in speculation, and for that reason it is worth defining 'trust' rather precisely as a moral expectation of known others (this will be discussed further below).…”

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Trust and Mistrust in the Economies of the China-Russia Borderlands

2018

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Asian Borderlands presents the latest research on borderlands in Asia as well as on the borderlands of Asia -the regions linking Asia with Africa, Europe and Oceania. Its approach is broad: it covers the entire range of the social sciences and humanities. The series explores the social, cultural, geographic, economic and historical dimensions of border-making by states, local communities and flows of goods, people and ideas. It considers territorial borderlands at various scales (national as well as supra-and sub-national) and in various forms (land borders, maritime borders), but also presents research on social borderlands resulting from border-making that may not be territorially fixed, for example linguistic or diasporic communities. Creative Commons License CC BY NC ND (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0) Series EditorsThe authors / Amsterdam University Press B.V., Amsterdam 2018Some rights reserved. Without limiting the rights under copyright reserved above, any part of this book may be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise). Breeze ' development, Vladivostok, 2013 190 Figure 13 The 'Eastern Breeze ' complex, Vladivostok, 2013 191 Figure 14 Chinese buyers scrupulously explore an old Chinese object put on sale at Sotheby's auction house in London, UK 212 Figure 15 Carl Fabergé's Easter egg, made predominantly of jade from a private collection of Viktor Vekselberg, the fourth richest person in Russia. The object is on display at special private museum in Saint-Petersburg, Russia 215 Figure 16 One of the Sunshine's operations. Guards reload raw jade to transport it across a river. Jade is on its way from mine to warehouse 219 Figure 17 Advertisement for a company offering help with on-line purchases in Manzhouli, China 241 List of Figures IntroductionTrusting and Mistrusting Across Borders Caroline HumphreyThis book is a collection of essays based on recent fieldwork along the Northeast frontier between Russia and China, 1 and it has two main aims that are closely interconnected. The first is to explore how trust and mistrust are negotiated in a situation beset with doubts and misunderstandings, in a border region where previously hostile states with very different histories, cultures, and languages face one another. The second is to suggest some ways in which these studies can contribute to understanding the import of trust and mistrust in small-scale economic activities. It should be added straight away that the book does not propose a theory of trust of its own to add to the numerous conceptualizations of this idea already available (Luhmann 1979;Gambetta 1988;Hosking 2010;Cook 2001; O'Neill 2002; Baier 2004;Hawley 2014). Rather, it provides anthropological ideas and ethnographic materials that will enable readers to explore and probe these models. What is new here is that, while the great majority of theories of trust assume that actors have a common back...

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2018

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“…Such kind of emotional signaling does not depend on physical Working Paper No. 105 presence, but can be reconstructed in the electronic trading places, where groups of traders develop identities and forge strategies against each others, such as in the competitive relations between traders at different financial centers (Zaloom, 2003).…”

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The Naturalistic Turn in Economics: Implications for the Theory of Finance

Herrmann‐Pillath

2008

SSRN Journal

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“…LIFFE's traders were often defiantly East End or 'Essex boys' (Zaloom 2003 and rather than gentlemen.…”

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The material production of virtuality: innovation, cultural geography and facticity in derivatives markets

MacKenzie¹

2007

Economy and Society

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Abstract:In the existing literature, the 'virtual' nature of financial derivatives is often commented upon, but how these products are brought into being has seldom been examined in any depth. This article analyzes the development since 1970 of organized financial-derivatives trading in the U.S. and U.K. (in particular, of derivatives exchanges and of the British financial spread-betting industry), with the goal of examining the 'material production of virtuality'. The article explores the similarities and differences between technological innovation and innovation in derivatives; discusses the role of the 'internal' cultures of financial markets and of the wider culture (in particular, the legal traces of hostility to gambling); and analyzes the requirement of 'facticity' for the measure underlying a cash-settled derivative, focusing in particular on the most important such measure, British Bankers' Association LIBOR (London interbank offered rate).

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Ambiguous numbers: Trading technologies and interpretation in financial markets

Cited by 237 publications

References 21 publications

Trust and Mistrust in the Economies of the China-Russia Borderlands

Trust and Mistrust in the Economies of the China-Russia Borderlands

The Naturalistic Turn in Economics: Implications for the Theory of Finance

The material production of virtuality: innovation, cultural geography and facticity in derivatives markets

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