This article develops a pragmatic theory of finance in which markets are considered to be centres of communicative … action in the face of uncertainty. This contrasts with the conventional approach that portrays markets as centres of … truthfulness, truth, and rightness of the statements made by its participants (i.e., the prices quoted). I claim that these …

algorithms and automation on financial markets have rendered traders alienated and estranged from the markets they work on for … financial markets allocate capital and how ripe they are for political manipulation. …

the cornucopians emphasise human creativity expressed through markets. This paper argues that both schools are right to …

Markets are reputed to be more flexible than other economic arrangements, though the meaning of flexibility remains … markets, leading to allocative efficiency. For heterodox economists and other social scientists, it goes beyond market … flexibility as applied to markets and evaluates the main alternative views. The orthodox approach, which informs most economic …

Economic theorists have seldom discussed the social structures behind markets, even though market trading relies … heavily on seller/buyer roles and personal relations among traders. This paper considers the structural basis of markets and … proposes a layered approach which accommodates a wide range of competitive and relational trade within a definition of markets …

actors in the markets and the central bank from a new perspective. According to John Maynard Keynes in 1932 (1982f), the …

markets (private practices) and states (public policies), pointing to the case of the European Union. …

) analysing platform infrastructures and markets; (2) platform governance; (3) the negotiation of platform power and its …

one of three exogenously imposed trading prices. The fixed prices divided the gains either symmetrically in the reference …