Making markets: opportunism and restraint on Wall Street

Introduction - market makers on Wall Street homo economicus unbound - bond traders on Wall Street structured anarchy - formal and informal organization in the futures market taming the market - conflict resolution among market makers responding to external threats homo economicus restrained - identity and control at the New York stock exchange coping with the threat of extinction opportunism and innovation an interpretation of the Milken drama cycles of opportunism - profits, prudence and the public interest.