Imagined Futures
Author | : Jens Beckert |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 359 |
Release | : 2016-06-07 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780674545892 |
ISBN-13 | : 0674545893 |
Rating | : 4/5 (92 Downloads) |
Download or read book Imagined Futures written by Jens Beckert and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2016-06-07 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.