Capitalism as a System of Expectations

By Jens Beckert. 2013

147 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Sociology and Political Science

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1. Benjamin Braun
2. Jens Beckert

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1. Benjamin Braun
2. Jens Beckert

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1. Benjamin Braun
2. Jens Beckert
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Citations in the corpus

• Imagined futures: fictional expectations in the economy (2013, background): “…of the human capability of imagining possible future states of the world provides a basis for anchoring a theory of the capitalist economy in a theory of action; it is also a crucial basis for an understanding of the value of goods and of how cooperation dilemmas are overcome (Beckert 2013).”
• From performativity to political economy: index investing, ETFs and asset manager capitalism (2016, background): “Drawing on arguments recently advanced in economic sociology (Beckert 2013b) and economic geography (Christophers 2014), this article conceptualises practices at the micro-level of markets and the political economy of capitalism as too inextricably linked for their analysis to be compartmentalised…”