Opening the black boxes of global finance
Opening the black boxes of global finance
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打开全球金融的黑匣子
DOI：
10.1080/09692290500240222
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发表时间：
2005
影响因子：
4.3
通讯作者：
D. MacKenzie
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作者：
D. MacKenzie
摘要本文倡导将科学研究的核心启发式方法之一--打开黑匣子--应用于全球金融。黑匣子是对外人不透明的装置、做法或组织，通常是因为它们的内容被认为是“技术”的。打开黑匣子的目的是发现它们是如何保持不透明的；它们是如何构建它们的“背景”的；以及这些背景是如何被嵌入其中的。讨论了金融中的四种类型的黑箱：期权定价理论、套利、民族会计学和监管。此外，还讨论了打开黑匣子作为对抗策略的局限性。
ABSTRACT This paper advocates the application to global finance of one of the central heuristics of science studies: open the black box. Black boxes are devices, practices, or organizations that are opaque to outsiders, often because their contents are regarded as ‘technical’. The goal of opening black boxes is to discover how they are kept opaque; how they structure their ‘contexts’; and how those contexts are inscribed within them. Four types of black box in finance are discussed: option pricing theory; arbitrage; ‘ethnoaccountancy’; and regulation. The limitations of the opening of black boxes as an oppositional strategy are also discussed.