The Future in Economic Action

Jens Beckert - Publications by Subject


Beckert, Jens, Richard Bronk
Fictional Expectations and Imagination in Economics. In: Paul Crosthwaite, Peter Knight, Nicky Marsh (eds.), The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Economics. Cambridge Companions to Literature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022, 277–292.
Bronk, Richard, Jens Beckert
The Instability of Preferences: Uncertain Futures and the Incommensurable and Intersubjective Nature of Value(s). MPIfG Discussion Paper 22/1. Köln: Max-Planck-Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung, 2022.
Beckert, Jens
Leaving the Path of Optimality Calculation: A Commentary on Fenton-O'Creevy and Tuckett, 2021: Selecting Futures: The Role of Conviction, Narratives, Ambivalence, and Constructive Doubt. In: Futures & Foresight Science 4(3-4), 2022.
Beckert, Jens
Les fictions comme moteur du capitalisme. In: Regards croisés sur l'économie, 29, 2021, 190–199.
Beckert, Jens
The Firm as an Engine of Imagination: Organizational Prospection and the Making of Economic Futures. In: Organization Theory 2(2), 2021.
Beckert, Jens, Lisa Suckert
The Future as a Social Fact: The Analysis of Perceptions of the Future in Sociology. In: Poetics 84, 2021.
Beckert, Jens
The Exhausted Futures of Neoliberalism: From Promissory Legitimacy to Social Anomy. In: Journal of Cultural Economy 13(3), 2020, 318–330.
Beckert, Jens, Timur Ergen
Transcending History’s Heavy Hand: The Future in Economic Action. In: Andrea Maurer (ed.), Handbook of Economic Sociology for the 21st Century: New Theoretical Approaches, Empirical Studies and Developments. Handbooks of Sociology and Social Research. Cham: Springer, 2021, 79–94.
Beckert, Jens
Capitalism: Anticipating the Future Present. In: Jacques-Henri Coste, Vincent Dussol (eds.), The Fictions of American Capitalism: Working Fictions and the Economic Novel. Palgrave Studies in Literature, Culture and Economics. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020, 69–88.
Beckert, Jens, Richard Bronk
Uncertain Futures: Imaginaries, Narratives, and Calculative Technologies. MPIfG Discussion Paper 19/10. Köln: Max-Planck-Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung, 2019.
Beckert, Jens
The Future in Economic Action: A Reply to the Reviewers. In: Distinktion: Journal of Social Theory 19(3), 2018, 344–352.
Beckert, Jens
Woher kommen Erwartungen? Die soziale Strukturierung imaginierter Zukünfte. In: Mark Jakob, Alexander Nützenadel, Jochen Streb (eds.), Erfahrung und Erwartung. Jahrbuch für Wirtschaftsgeschichte. Berlin: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2018, 507–523.
Beckert, Jens, Richard Bronk (eds.)
Uncertain Futures: Imaginaries, Narratives, and Calculation in the Economy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018.
Beckert, Jens
The Future in Economic Action: A Reply to the Reviewers. In: Distinktion: Journal of Social Theory 19(3), 2018, 344–352.
Beckert, Jens
Woher kommen Erwartungen? Die soziale Strukturierung imaginierter Zukünfte. In: Mark Jakob, Alexander Nützenadel, Jochen Streb (eds.), Erfahrung und Erwartung. Jahrbuch für Wirtschaftsgeschichte. Berlin: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2018, 507–523.
Beckert, Jens
Imaginierte Zukunft: Fiktionale Erwartungen und die Dynamik des Kapitalismus. Berlin: Suhrkamp, 2018.
Beckert, Jens
Woher kommen Erwartungen? Die soziale Strukturierung imaginierter Zukünfte. MPIfG Discussion Paper 17/17. Köln: Max-Planck-Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung, 2017.
Beckert, Jens
Die Historizität fiktionaler Erwartungen. MPIfG Discussion Paper 17/8. Köln: Max-Planck-Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung, 2017.
Beckert, Jens
Reimaginando a dinâmica capitalista: Expectativas ficcionais e o caráter aberto dos futuros econômicos. In: Tempo Social 29(1), 2017, 165–189.
Beckert, Jens
Die Historizität fiktionaler Erwartungen. MPIfG Institutstag, Köln, November 17, 2016.
Beckert, Jens
Zukunftspraktiken in Organisationen: Kommentar zum Beitrag von Koch/Krämer/Reckwitz/Wenzel „Zum Umgang mit Zukunft in Organisationen – eine praxistheoretische Perspektive“. In: Managementforschung 26(1), 2016, 185–190.
Beckert, Jens
Imagined Futures: Fictional Expectations and Capitalist Dynamics. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2016.
Beckert, Jens
Fictional Expectations and the Crisis of Contemporary Capitalism. In: Economic Sociology: The European Electronic Newsletter 17(2), 2016, 39–45.
Beckert, Jens
Re-imagining Capitalist Dynamics: Fictional Expectations and the Openness of Economic Futures. In: Patrik Aspers, Nigel Dodd (eds.), Re-imagining Economic Sociology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015, 57–78.
Beckert, Jens
Capitalist Dynamics: Fictional Expectations and the Openness of the Future. MPIfG Discussion Paper 14/7. Köln: Max-Planck-Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung, 2014.
Beckert, Jens
Imagined Futures: Fictional Expectations in the Economy. In: Theory and Society 42(3), 2013, 219–240.
Beckert, Jens
Capitalism as a System of Expectations: Toward a Sociological Microfoundation of Political Economy. In: Politics & Society 41(3), 2013, 323–350.
Beckert, Jens
Capitalism as a System of Contingent Expectations: Toward a Sociological Microfoundation of Political Economy. MPIfG Discussion Paper 12/4. Köln: Max-Planck-Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung, 2012.
Beckert, Jens
Imagined Futures: Fictionality in Economic Action. MPIfG Discussion Paper 11/8. Köln: Max-Planck-Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung, 2011.
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