Donald Angus MacKenzie
Donald Angus MacKenzie FBA FRSE FAcSS (born 3 May 1950) is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland. His work cons*utes a crucial contribution to the field of science and technology studies. He has also developed research in the field of social studies of finance. He has undertaken widely cited work on the history of statistics, eugenics, nuclear weapons, computing and finance, among other things.
In August 2006, MacKenzie was awarded the Chancellor's Award from Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh and Chancellor of the University of Edinburgh, for his contributions to the field of science and technology studies. He is also the winner of the 1993 Robert K. Merton Award of the American Sociological *ociation and the 2005 John Desmond Bernal Prize of the Society for Social Studies of Science among many others.
Books
- MacKenzie, Donald (1981). Statistics in Britain, 1865-1930: The Social Construction of Scientific Knowledge. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. ISBN:9780852243695.
- MacKenzie, Donald; Wajcman, Judy (1985). The Social Shaping of Technology: How the Refrigerator Got Its Hum. Milton Keynes Philadelphia: Open University Press. ISBN:9780335150267.
- MacKenzie, Donald (13 December 1990). Inventing Accuracy: A Historical Sociology of Nuclear Missile Guidance (1st:ed.). MIT Press. ISBN:978-0262132589. LCCN:90005915. OCLC:1068009953. OL:1854178M. Archived from the original on 22 November 2019. Retrieved 22 November 2019.
- MacKenzie, Donald (1998). Knowing Machines: Essays on Technical Change. Cambridge, M*achusetts: MIT Press. ISBN:9780262631884.
- MacKenzie, Donald (2001). Mechanizing Proof: Computing, Risk, and Trust. Cambridge, M*achusetts: MIT Press. ISBN:9780585436739.
- MacKenzie, Donald (2006). An Engine, Not a Camera: How Financial Models Shape Markets. Cambridge, M*achusetts: MIT Press. ISBN:9781423774488.
- MacKenzie, Donald; Muniesa, Fabian; Siu, Lucia (2007). Do Economists Make Markets?: On the Performativity of Economics. Princeton: Princeton University Press. ISBN:9780691138497.
- MacKenzie, Donald (2009). Material Markets: How Economic Agents are Constructed. Oxford New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN:9780199278152.
- MacKenzie, Donald (2021). Trading at the Speed of Light: How Ultrafast Algorithms Are Transforming Financial Markets. Princeton University Press. ISBN:9780691211381.
References
External links
- Donald MacKenzie's faculty homepage at the University of Edinburgh
- Donald MacKenzie's contributions published in The London Review of Books (including "The Political Economy of Carbon Trading")