Imagined futures : fictional expectations and capitalist dynamics / Jens Beckert.
Beckert, Jens, 1967- author.; ProQuest (Firm)
2016
HB501 .B37384 2016
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Title Imagined futures : fictional expectations and capitalist dynamics / Jens Beckert.
Author Beckert, Jens, 1967- author.
ISBN 9780674545878 (electronic bk.)
0674545877 (electronic bk.)
9780674088825
0674088824
Published Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2016.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (ix, 373 pages) : illustrations.
Other Standard Identifiers 40026175150
Call Number HB501 .B37384 2016
Dewey Decimal Classification 330.12/2
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Introduction
Part One: Decision-making in an uncertain world
The temporal order of capitalism
Expectations and uncertainty
Fictional expectations
Part Two: Building blocks of capitalism
Money and credit: the promise of future value
Investments: imaginaries of profit
Innovation: imaginaries of technological futures
Consumption: value from meaning
Part Three: Instruments of imagination
Forecasting: creating the present
Economic theory: the crystal ball of calculative devices
Conclusion: the enchanted world of capitalism.

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