Imagined Futures : : Fictional Expectations and Capitalist Dynamics / / Jens Beckert.

Consumers, investors, and corporations orient their activities toward a future that contains opportunities and risks. How do these actors assess uncertainty? Jens Beckert adds a new chapter to the theory of capitalism by showing how fictional expectations drive modern economies—or throw them into cr...

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Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2016]
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Year of Publication:2016
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505 0 0 |t Frontmatter --   |t Contents --   |t Acknowledgments --   |t 1. Introduction --   |t I. Decision- Making in an Uncertain World --   |t 2. The Temporal Order of Capitalism --   |t 3. Expectations and Uncertainty --   |t 4. Fictional Expectations --   |t II. Building Blocks of Capitalism --   |t 5. Money and Credit: The Promise of Future Value --   |t 6. Investments: Imaginaries of Profit --   |t 7. Innovation: Imaginaries of Technological Futures --   |t 8. Consumption: Value from Meaning --   |t III. Instruments of Imagination --   |t 9. Forecasting: Creating the Present --   |t 10. Economic Theory: The Crystal Ball of Calculative Devices --   |t 11. Conclusion: The Enchanted World of Capitalism --   |t Notes --   |t References --   |t Index 
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