Donald MacKenzie, a sociologist of science and technology, is a professor at the University of Edinburgh. Trading at the Speed of Light: How Ultrafast Algorithms Are Transforming Financial Markets was published by Princeton in 2021.
We are all prisoners of our backgrounds as well as slaves to our genes, and no field of science is riper for sociological investigation based on this premise than the development of biometry, and...
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