The Credit Crisis as a Problem in the Sociology of Knowledge.¶
MacKenzie, D. (2011). The Credit Crisis as a Problem in the Sociology of Knowledge. American Journal of Sociology, 116(6), 1778-1841.
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- Statistical Independence
- The 2008 mortgage crisis, the Challenger O-rings, and a CI suite broken by shared fixtures are the same structural failure — a false independence assumption — read in three different substrates.
This sourceAnalyzes the 2008 crisis as resting on false independence assumptions among correlated mortgage risks (the Gaussian copula).
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Covers only the 2008 credit-crisis limb: a sociology-of-knowledge account of ABS/CDO valuation, with no statement in the passage held of a false independence assumption.
“This article analyzes the role in the credit crisis of the processes by which market participants produce knowledge about financial instruments.”
- The 2008 mortgage crisis, the Challenger O-rings, and a CI suite broken by shared fixtures are the same structural failure — a false independence assumption — read in three different substrates.
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