Imagined Futures: Fictional Expectations and Capitalist DynamicsConsumers, 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. |
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Contents
The Temporal Order of Capitalism | |
Expectations and Uncertainty | |
Fictional Expectations | |
The Promise of Future Value | |
Imaginaries of Profit | |
Imaginaries of Technological Futures | |
Value from Meaning | |
Instruments of Imagination | |
The Crystal Ball of Calculative Devices | |
The Enchanted World of Capitalism | |
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| Title | Imagined Futures: Fictional Expectations and Capitalist Dynamics |
| Author | Jens Beckert |
| Publisher | Harvard University Press, 2016 |
| ISBN | 0674545893, 9780674545892 |
| Length | 383 pages |
| Subjects | › › Business & Economics / Economics / Theory Political Science / Political Economy Social Science / Sociology / General |
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