“…In that assay devices are demonstrated here to be both market devices and a critical part of an in vivo experiment in constituting a spatially bounded market in ship recycling, their significance goes beyond the specifics of the empirical case to connect with more fundamental debate about economies as performative (Callon, 1998(Callon, , 2007Callon et al 2007;Mackenzie, 2003Mackenzie, , 2004Mackenzie, , 2006Mackenzie, , 2009Mackenzie et al 2007). Much of the interest here has been in economics' multifarious effects on economies, and particularly how effects are woven into material practices that perform economies into being.…”