Section: Research Student Profiles

Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra

Name
Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra
Organisation
Science Studies, School of Social and Political Studies
University of Edinburgh
Address
Chisholm House High School Yards Edinburgh UK EH1 1LZ
E-Mail
Research Interests
Science and technology studies,Sociology of knowledge,Financial Markets,Historical sociology,Performativity,Law and Regulation
URL
http://www.sps.ed.ac.uk/gradschool/research_student_profiles/science_and_technology_studies/pardo-guerra_juan
Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra

PhD Title

Computerizing Gentlemen: Performativity and Finance in the London Stock Exchange

About 

I hold a BSc (equivalent) in physics from the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico and an MSc in Science and Technology Studies from the University of Edinburgh.

My main research concerns the introduction of information and communication technologies to the London Stock Exchange and its member firms between c. 1945 and 1990. In particular, my research provide insights on the interactions between information technologies, market practices and regulation in finance. Located at the intersection of economic sociology and science and technology studies, my work explores three developments that are arguably central to the reorganization and reconstitution of the financial sector of the second half of the twentieth century, namely, dematerialization, disintermediation and deregulation. By deconstructing these myths through a historical analysis, my work offers a critical re-appraisal of the relationship between information and social order in contemporary financial markets.

Some of my additional academic interests are: economic history; the sociology of art and culture; the history of economic and social doctrines, with a particular emphasis in Latin America and its interaction with the world-at-large; the politics of nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation; the sociology of emerging technologies and their associated expectations.

Publications

Peer Reviewed

i) Pardo-Guerra, JP ‘Creating Flows of Interpersonal Bits: the Automation of the LondonStock Exchange, 1955-1990’Economy & Society (Forthcoming 2010)

ii) Pardo-Guerra, JP ‘Mapping Nanotechnology Across the Atlantic: Some (Tentative) Lessons on the Future of Nanotechnology in Latin America’ Science and Public Policy (Revise and resubmit)

iii) Pardo-Guerra, JP ‘How Much for the Michelangelo? Calculation, Commoditization and Finitism in the Secondary Art Market’ Cultural Sociology (Forthcoming 2009)

iv) Pardo-Guerra, JP and Aguayo, F, 2005, ‘Nanotechnology and the International Regime on Chemical and Biological Weapons’, Nanotechnology, Law & Business, 2(1)

Book Chapters

i) Pardo-Guerra, JP ‘Trillions Out of Ones and Zeros: the Sociology of Finance Encounters the Digital Age’ in Prior, N. and Orton-Johnson, K. (eds.) Rethinking sociology in the digital age, Palgrave: London(Forthcoming 2010)

ii) Pardo-Guerra, JP ‘The House, Automated: the Digitalization of the London Stock Exchange, 1955-1986’in Batiz-Lazo, B., Maixe-Altes, JC. and Thomes, P. (eds.) Moneymen and their Dream Machines: Digitalizing Retail Finance in Western Union, North America and Japan, Routledge: London(in preparation)

iii) Pardo-Guerra, JP ‘The Historical Sociology of Market Automation’ in Knorr-Cetina, K and Preda, A (eds.) The Handbook of the Sociology of FinanceOxforduniversity Press: Oxford(in preparation)

Conference Proceedings

i) Gordillo, JL, Pardo-Guerra, JP, Stephens, CR. 2004 ‘Adaptation in the Presence of Exogenous Information in an Artificial Financial Market’, Third Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Springer-Verlag: Berlin

Unpublished Manuscripts

i) Pardo-Guerra, J.P. 2009 ‘4,000 Miles of Separation: Financial Economics Across the Atlantic, 1900-1970’

ii) Benink, H.A., Gordillo, J.L., Pardo-Guerra, J.P. and Stephens, C. 2007. ‘Market Efficiency and Learning in an Artificial Stock Market: A Perspective from Neo-Austrian Economics’ Available at: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1008602

iii) Stephens, C., Benink, H.A., Gordillo, J.L. and Pardo-Guerra, J.P. 2007. ‘A New Measure of Market Inefficiency’ Available at http://ssrn.com/abstract=1009669

Miscellaneous

Book reviews in British Journal of Sociology and apsForum Physics & Society; comments and small articles in Post-Autistic Economics Review, The Americas Program, Pugwash Newsletter and Revista Ciencias; letters to the editor in Physics Today and Scientific American.
 

This page was published on 11 November 2009


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