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57
Citations
21868
World Ranking
1721
National Ranking
312

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2001 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom

Overview

Donald MacKenzie is affiliated with the University of Edinburgh in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the field of Social Sciences, with a focus on several subfields including Sociology and Political Science, Finance, Marketing, Mechanics of Materials, and Law.

The scientist's work addresses various topics, notably:

  • Sharing Economy and Platforms
  • Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism
  • Digital Economy and Work Transformation
  • Digital Platforms and Economics
  • Blockchain Technology Applications and Security
  • Photovoltaic Systems and Sustainability
  • Fatigue and fracture mechanics

Donald MacKenzie has published multiple papers in notable academic venues. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Economy and Society
  • Journal of Cultural Economy
  • Procedia Structural Integrity
  • Review of International Political Economy
  • Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand

Recent key papers by MacKenzie include:

  • "The longest second: Header bidding and the material politics of online advertising," 2023, Economy and Society
  • "Spoofing: Law, materiality and boundary work in futures trading," 2021, Economy and Society
  • "Why hasn't high-frequency trading swept the board? Shares, sovereign bonds and the politics of market structure," 2020, Review of International Political Economy
  • "Stacked economization: a research program for the study of platforms," 2024, Journal of Cultural Economy (co-authored with Koray Çalışkan)
  • "Floating photovoltaic systems: potential implications for Aotearoa New Zealand," 2022, Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand (co-authored with Alan C. Brent)

Co-authors frequently collaborating with Donald MacKenzie include:

  • Koray Çalışkan
  • Charlotte Rommerskirchen
  • Michel Callon
  • Addie McGowan
  • Tugrul Comlekci

The scientist has also contributed to book publications with different presses. Notable titles include:

  • "Trading at the Speed of Light," 2021, Princeton University Press
  • "The Seymour Cray Era of Supercomputers," 2025, Association for Computing Machinery

Donald MacKenzie has received distinctions such as:

  • Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 2001
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom

Best Publications

  • An Engine, Not a Camera: How Financial Models Shape Markets

    Donald A. MacKenzie

  • Constructing a Market, Performing Theory: The Historical Sociology of a Financial Derivatives Exchange

    Donald MacKenzie;Yuval Millo

  • The Social Shaping of Technology

    Donald A. MacKenzie;Judy Wajcman

  • Do Economists Make Markets?: On the Performativity of Economics

    Donald MacKenzie;Fabian Muniesa;Leung Sea Siu

  • Making things the same: Gases, Emission Rights and the Politics of Carbon Markets

    Donald MacKenzie

  • Inventing Accuracy: A Historical Sociology of Nuclear Missile Guidance

    Donald MacKenzie

  • Material Markets: How Economic Agents are Constructed

    Donald A. MacKenzie

  • The social shaping of technology : how the refrigerator got its hum

    Donald A. MacKenzie;Judy Wajcman

  • An engine, not a camera

    Donald Alexander Mackenzie

  • Is economics performative? Option theory and the construction of derivatives markets

    Donald Mackenzie

  • The Credit Crisis as a Problem in the Sociology of Knowledge

    Donald MacKenzie

  • An Equation and its Worlds: Bricolage, Exemplars, Disunity and Performativity in Financial Economics

    Donald MacKenzie

  • A Price is a Social Thing: Towards a Material Sociology of Arbitrage

    Daniel Beunza;Iain Hardie;Donald MacKenzie

  • Statistics in Britain, 1865-1930 : the social construction of scientific knowledge

    M. J. Cullen;Donald A. Mackenzie

  • Tacit Knowledge, Weapons Design, and the Uninvention of Nuclear Weapons

    Donald MacKenzie;Graham Spinardi

  • The big, bad wolf and the rational market: portfolio insurance, the 1987 crash and the performativity of economics

    Donald MacKenzie

  • Negotiating a Market, Performing Theory: The Historical Sociology of a Financial Derivatives Exchange

    Donald MacKenzie;Yuval Millo

  • Long-Term Capital Management and the sociology of arbitrage

    Donald MacKenzie

  • Assembling an economic actor: the agencement of a Hedge Fund

    Iain Hardie;Donald MacKenzie

  • The usefulness of inaccurate models: Towards an understanding of the emergence of financial risk management

    Yuval Millo;Donald MacKenzie

  • Mechanizing Proof: Computing, Risk, and Trust

    Donald MacKenzie

  • The History of Statistics: The Measurement of Uncertainty before 1900

    Donald MacKenzie;Stephen M. Stigler

Frequent Co-Authors

Michèle Lamont
Michèle Lamont Harvard University
Steve Woolgar
Steve Woolgar University of Oxford
William H. Dutton
William H. Dutton University of Oxford
Judy Wajcman
Judy Wajcman London School of Economics and Political Science
Steven Shapin
Steven Shapin Harvard University

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