Imagined futures fictional expectations and capitalist dynamics
"Imagined Futures offers a new explanation for the dynamics of modern capitalism and the restlessness of our economy, based on our temporal orientation. Building on a historical account of how competition and the credit system have forced actors to orient their decisions towards a future that i...
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Cambridge, Massachusetts
Harvard University Press,
2016.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.