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date: 26 February 2021

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This article highlights the role played by financial analysts in the production of the cognitive formats within which financial markets operate. It tracks the history and development of this profession and argues that analysts do not merely produce passive forms of cognition, but play a significant part in enabling modes of coordination at collective levels.

Keywords: financial analysts, cognitive formats, financial markets, passive forms

Leon Wansleben

Leon Wansleben holds a PhD in sociology from the University of Konstanz and since 2010 has been a research fellow at the University of Lucerne, working on a project on economic and financial image practices. His forthcoming monograph Cultures of Expertise in Global Currency Markets provides a first empirical study of market cultures and expert practices in the area of foreign exchange.

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