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Imagined Futures: Fictional Expectations and Capitalist Dynamics
Jens Beckert
Imagined Futures: Fictional Expectations and Capitalist Dynamics
Jens Beckert
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.
358 pages
Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
Released | June 7, 2016 |
ISBN13 | 9780674088825 |
Publishers | Harvard University Press |
Pages | 384 |
Dimensions | 160 × 243 × 31 mm · 790 g |
Language | English |
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