Imagined Futures: Fictional Expectations and Capitalist Dynamics (Harvard Studies in Ukrainian S)

by JensBeckert (Author)

• New

  Illustrated
  2016

  $39.54

  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.