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SUMMARY:Material Political Economy  - Donald MacKenzie\, University of Edi
 nburgh
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CONTACT:Connie Tang
DESCRIPTION:‘Material political economy’ is a perspective on finance (
 and similar markets) that takes all three of those words seriously. It pro
 bes the material foundations of finance\; examines the politics of those f
 oundations (both in the actor-network theory sense of ‘material politics
 ’ and in the effect on finance’s materiality of the interaction betwee
 n finance and the political system)\; and is attentive to the economics of
  finance\, especially to finance’s mundane money-making.\n\nThe main cas
 e that will be examined is automated\, ultrafast high-frequency trading or
  HFT\, but two other cases will be discussed more briefly: decentralised c
 ryptocurrencies such as bitcoin and ethereum\; and online advertising\, es
 pecially realtime bidding.\n
LOCATION: McCrum Lecture Theate\, Corpus Christi College. Bene’t Street\
 , Cambridge
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