Uncertain Futures: Imaginaries, Narratives, and Calculation in the Economy

• Other Authors: Beckert, J., Bronk, R.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford University Press 2018
• Subjects: Arctic; Jenny; Bronk; Boyer
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0001-D5B0-7

Uncertain Futures considers how economic actors visualize the future and decide how to act in conditions of radical uncertainty. It starts from the premise that dynamic capitalist economies are characterized by relentless innovation and novelty and hence exhibit an indeterminacy that cannot be reduc...