Imagined Futures: Fictional Expectations And Capitalist Dynamics

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.

• | Author: Jens Beckert
• | Publisher: Harvard University Press
• | Publication Date: Jun 01, 2016
• | Number of Pages: 384 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 0674088824
• | ISBN-13: 9780674088825