TY  - BOOK
AU  - Beckert,Jens
TI  - Imagined Futures: Fictional Expectations and Capitalist Dynamics 
SN  - 9780674545878
AV  - HB501 .B37384 2016eb
U1  - 330.12/2 23
PY  - 2016///]
CY  - Cambridge, MA : 
PB  - Harvard University Press, 
KW  - Capitalism
KW  - Decision making
KW  - Economic aspects
KW  - Economic forecasting
KW  - Economics
KW  - Time and economic reactions
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - 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; restricted access
N2  - 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 crisis when imagined futures fail to materialize
UR  - https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674545878
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674545878
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780674545878/original
ER  -