Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra is Assistant Professor in Sociology at the University of California, San Diego. Building on an early interest in econophysics and artificial financial markets, his work covers the history of technology in financial markets, the sociology of art markets, and the use of computational methods in social science.

'Automating Finance is relevant for researchers and students of economic sociology, but its contributions travel beyond this with tremendous implications for other fields, including management,organisational sociology, public administration and public policy. Finance professionals would also enjoy the book, as they could learn how technical entrepreneurs manoeuvred through institutional,structural and organisational dynamics in automating finance.' M. Kerem Coban, LSE Review of Books

• Preface; 1. Markets in milliseconds; 2. Infrastructures of kinship; 3. The power of invisibility; 4. The hubris of platforms; 5. The wizards of king street; 6. Making moral markets; 7. Rabbits guarding the lettuce; 8. Infrastructures, kinship, and queues.

Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra is Assistant Professor in Sociology at the University of California, San Diego. Building on an early interest in econophysics and artificial financial markets, his work covers the history of technology in financial markets, the sociology of art markets, and the use of computational methods in social science.

'Automating Finance is relevant for researchers and students of economic sociology, but its contributions travel beyond this with tremendous implications for other fields, including management,organisational sociology, public administration and public policy. Finance professionals would also enjoy the book, as they could learn how technical entrepreneurs manoeuvred through institutional,structural and organisational dynamics in automating finance.' M. Kerem Coban, LSE Review of Books

• Preface; 1. Markets in milliseconds; 2. Infrastructures of kinship; 3. The power of invisibility; 4. The hubris of platforms; 5. The wizards of king street; 6. Making moral markets; 7. Rabbits guarding the lettuce; 8. Infrastructures, kinship, and queues.

Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra is Assistant Professor in Sociology at the University of California, San Diego. Building on an early interest in econophysics and artificial financial markets, his work covers the history of technology in financial markets, the sociology of art markets, and the use of computational methods in social science.

'Automating Finance is relevant for researchers and students of economic sociology, but its contributions travel beyond this with tremendous implications for other fields, including management,organisational sociology, public administration and public policy. Finance professionals would also enjoy the book, as they could learn how technical entrepreneurs manoeuvred through institutional,structural and organisational dynamics in automating finance.' M. Kerem Coban, LSE Review of Books

• Preface; 1. Markets in milliseconds; 2. Infrastructures of kinship; 3. The power of invisibility; 4. The hubris of platforms; 5. The wizards of king street; 6. Making moral markets; 7. Rabbits guarding the lettuce; 8. Infrastructures, kinship, and queues.