Fictional Expectations and Capitalist Dynamics
by
Jens Beckert
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
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.