Provides ethnographic observations and analysis of a laboratory experiment in economics.

Studies a number of aspects of the reform of public finance and public management in France (LOLF), with special attention to science and technology policy, using a pragmatist approach to the sociology of the state.

Analyses the ambiguity of a number of transparency-making devices in economic and financial life.

Provides some theoretical developments on the topic of the performativity of economics.

Examines the pragmatic efficacy of a the diagrammatic presentation of managerial problems in a consultancy slideshow through an ethnographic analysis of a consultancy mission, and discusses findings in the light of a pragmatist approach.

Reviews debates on the performativity of economics from the vantage point of a general anthropology of modern economic reason.

Presents a case study on the Arizona Stock Exchange, with an emphasis on how exchange automation altered the definition of the market.