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  Sociological ReviewVolume 55 Issue 1, Pages 57 - 80 Published Online: 24 Jan 2007 Journal compilation © 2010 The Editorial Board of The Sociological Review
Abstract | References | Full Text: HTML, PDF (Size: 141K) | Related Articles | Citation Tracking  Assembling an economic actor: the agencement of a Hedge Fund Copyright © 2007 The Authors. Journal compilation © 2007 The Editorial Board of The Sociological Review Abstract
Michel Callon has conceptualised economic actors as made up of socio-technical agencements: collectives of human beings, technical devices, algorithms, and so on. This article reports a pilot, partially observational study of a hedge fund, a category of actor in financial markets that is of growing importance but that has so far attracted little attention in economic sociology. It draws on that study, and on interviews with other financial market practitioners, to delineate what is involved in viewing such an actor as made up of an agencement, and discusses the merits of doing so. Received 30 August 2005 | 
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