Book review: automating finance: infrastructures, engineers and the making of electronic markets by Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra

In Automating Finance: Infrastructures, Engineers and the Making of Electronic Markets, Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra offers a new examination of how stock exchanges have been automated through an incremental process, focusing on the infrastructural objects and work involved in the computerisation of the stock exchange in the UK and the US. This theoretically and empirically multilayered book will be particularly relevant for researchers and students of economic sociology as well as finance professionals, though its contributions travel beyond this with tremendous implications for multiple fields, writes M Kerem Coban.