Imagined Futures : : Fictional Expectations and Capitalist Dynamics /

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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016
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Beckert, Jens,
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2016]
©2016
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (358 p.) :; 2 charts, 12 graphs
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1. Introduction
  • I. Decision- Making in an Uncertain World
  • 2. The Temporal Order of Capitalism
  • 3. Expectations and Uncertainty
  • 4. Fictional Expectations
  • II. Building Blocks of Capitalism
  • 5. Money and Credit: The Promise of Future Value
  • 6. Investments: Imaginaries of Profit
  • 7. Innovation: Imaginaries of Technological Futures
  • 8. Consumption: Value from Meaning
  • III. Instruments of Imagination
  • 9. Forecasting: Creating the Present
  • 10. Economic Theory: The Crystal Ball of Calculative Devices
  • 11. Conclusion: The Enchanted World of Capitalism
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index

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