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SUMMARY:Machines and Markets: The Island Matching Engine and the Inversion
  of Finance - Professor Donald MacKenzie\, University of Edinburgh
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CONTACT:Professor Michael Bravo
DESCRIPTION:This paper examines an important ‘slice’ of the history of
  today’s fully automated high-frequency trading: the emergence in the 19
 90s of Island\, a new venue for the electronic trading of shares\, and the
  development of its matching engine (a matching engine is the part of an e
 xchange’s computer system that consummates trades). The paper will explo
 re a number of analytical themes\, including: \n•	Innovation as locally-
 situated bricolage\, where the local situation included one of the sharpes
 t ever conflicts within U.S. finance.\n•	Island’s matching engine as a
  machine that compressed time and (subjectively) expanded space.\n•	An a
 ctor-network theory ‘inversion’\, in which the ‘micro’ became ‘m
 acro’ and vice versa.\nThe paper will be a development of a joint articl
 e with Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra\, which is forthcoming in Economy and Socie
 ty.
LOCATION:Small Lecture Theatre\, Department of Geography\, Downing Site
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