Current narratives about the possible future

Nicholas Mangee ()

Chapter 14 in Narrative Analytics and Stock Market Forecasting, 2025, pp 195-207 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: The future is objectively open. At any given point in time, there are various clusters of narratives – whether about the economy, politics, society, or other relevant arenas – that individuals employ when attempting to describe possible states of the future. The present chapter considers six story threads that are shaping the ways people interpret the instability of the present while venturing educated guesses about the unknowable future. Trend forecasters across industries and scientific disciplines plot various paths forward conditional on a range of assumptions about what the future may look like. Longer-run forecasts from economic and policy experts are presented along with associated narrative trends and counter-narratives. The areas of investigation for understanding narratives’ connection to the future span transportation, climate, work, China, education, and demographics.

Keywords: Transportation narratives; China narratives; Climate narratives; Education narratives; Demographic narratives; Work narratives (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781035357598
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