Insider trading impulses presuppose rather than undermine market temporal community

Evidence

Traders, investors, and others attempt to gain advance knowledge of special developments, but these pursuits presuppose, rather than undercut, the community of time that obtains with respect to the market. — Karin Knorr Cetina & Urs Bruegger, Global Microstructures, 94

Categorization

  • XREF: Parallels the ethnography of trading screens and the phenomenology of market time; connects to the reader’s finance/ethnography work on screen-based markets. — connects to: Shared temporal structuring of a common object distinguishes global markets from ordinary electronic groups — Karin Knorr Cetina & Urs Bruegger, Global Microstructures: The Virtual…, 141; Insiders can earn excess profits through monopolistic access to information. — Donald MacKenzie, An Engine, Not a Camera: How Financial…, 296

Broader Connections