Woher kommen Erwartungen?: Die soziale Strukturierung imaginierter Zukünfte

Jens Beckert

Jahrbuch für Wirtschaftsgeschichte / Economic History Yearbook, 2018, vol. 59, issue 2, 507-523

Abstract: Expectations play a crucial role in capitalist economies. Where do the expectations on which actors base their decisions come from? The paper approaches this question by discussing seven social factors that shape expectations: Institutions, social position, social networks, calculative tools, cultural structures, reflexivity, and protention. Following this discussion, the last part of the paper looks at the role of social power and the mass media in the diffusion of expectations.

Keywords: expectations; fictions; social structures; future; capitalism; uncertainty; imagination; story; Erwartungen; Fiktionen; soziale Strukturen; Zukunft; Kapitalismus; Ungewissheit; Imagination; Geschichten (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A B D (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1515/jbwg-2018-0017

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