Imagined Futures

Autori

• Jens Beckert

Parametri

• 373 pagine
• 14 ore di lettura

• Commercio e vendita
• Economia
• Economia e affari
• Saggistica
• Scienze sociali

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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.

Lingua: Inglese

Pubblicato: 2016

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