Imagined futures: fictional expectations and capitalist dynamics
Auteur :
Beckert, Jens
Éditeur :
Harvard University Press
ISBN :
9780674088825
Date de publication :
7 juin 2016
Dimensions :
21,0 x 15,0 x 2,5 cm
Poids :
1275 g
Format :
book
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
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.