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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.
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Imagined Futures, Jens Beckert
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- Released
- 2016
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- Title
- Imagined Futures
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Jens Beckert
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Released
- 2016
- Format
- Hardcover
- Pages
- 373
- ISBN10
- 0674088824
- ISBN13
- 9780674088825
- Series
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- 4.6 out of 5
- Description
- 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.