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Abolafia, Mitchell. Making Markets : Opportunism and Restraint on Wall Street. Cambridge, MS: Harvard University Press, J996, 2J6 p.) Книжная рецензия
Кузина,Ольга Евгеньевна. +1 more
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The article was published on 2001-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 101 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Opportunism.read more
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Tools of the trade: the socio-technology of arbitrage in a Wall Street trading room
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that the remarkable success of today's financial risk management methods should be attributed primarily to their communicative and organizational usefulness and less to the accuracy of the results they produced.