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OverviewUncertain 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 reduced to measurable risk. The organizing question then becomes how economic actors form expectations and make decisions despite the uncertainty they face. This edited volume lays the foundations for a new model of economic reasoning by showing how, in conditions of uncertainty, economic actors combine calculation with imaginaries and narratives to form fictional expectations that coordinate action and provide the confidence to act. It draws on groundbreaking research in economic sociology, economics, anthropology, and psychology to present theoretically grounded empirical case studies. These demonstrate how grand narratives, central bank forward guidance, economic forecasts, finance models, business plans, visions of technological futures, and new era stories influence behaviour and become instruments of power in markets and societies. The market impact of shared calculative devices, social narratives, and contingent imaginaries underlines the rationale for a new form of narrative economics. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Jens Beckert (Professor and Director of the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Professor and Director of the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Max Planck Institute) , Richard Bronk (Visiting Senior Fellow, Visiting Senior Fellow, European Institute, London School of Economics and Poltical Science)Publisher: Oxford University Press Imprint: Oxford University Press Dimensions: Width: 16.30cm , Height: 2.60cm , Length: 24.20cm Weight: 0.657kg ISBN: 9780198820802ISBN 10: 0198820801 Pages: 346 Publication Date: 02 August 2018 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of Contents1: Jens Beckert and Richard Bronk: An Introduction to Uncertain Futures Section I: The Nature of Expectations in Modern Political Economies 2: Robert Boyer: Expectations, Narratives, and Socio-Economic Regimes 3: David Tuckett: Conviction Narrative Theory and Understanding Decision-Making in Economics and Finance 4: Jenny Andersson: Arctic Futures: Expectations, Interests, Claims, and the Making of Arctic Territory Section II: The Strange World of Economic Forecasting 5: Werner Reichmann: The Interactional Foundations of Economic Forecasting 6: Olivier Pilmis: Escaping the Reality Test: How Macroeconomic Forecasters Deal with 'Errors' 7: Andrew G. Haldane: Uncertainty in Macroeconomic Modelling Section III: The Role of Narratives and Planning in Central Banking 8: Douglas R. Holmes: A Tractable Future: Central Banks in Conversation with their Publics 9: Benjamin Braun: Central Bank Planning? Unconventional Monetary Policy and the Price of Bending the Yield Curve Section IV: Constructing Futures in Finance 10: Elena Esposito: Predicted Uncertainty: Volatility Calculus and the Indeterminacy of the Future 11: Natalia Besedovsky: Uncertain Meanings of Risk: Calculative Practices and Risk Conceptions in Credit Rating Agencies Section V: Managing Expectations in Innovative Business 12: Martin Giraudeau: Processing the Future: Venture Project Evaluation at American Research and Development Corporation (1946-1973) 13: Liliana Doganova: Discounting and the Making of the Future: On Uncertainty in Forest Management and Drug Development 14: Timur Ergen: The Dilemma between Aligned Expectations and Diversity in Innovation: Evidence from Early Energy Technology PoliciesReviewsHow do people make sense of the unknown a perhaps unknowable a future? It is becoming increasingly clear that this question is central to our understanding of economic life. The fine collection of studies in this book is a crucial contribution to this vital debate. * Donald MacKenzie, University of Edinburgh and author of An Engine, Not a Camera * We all have to take decisions with long-term consequences, with little knowledge of what the future may bring. The future is inherently uncertain, so we cannot even estimate probabilities in most cases. The editors of this book have put together a collection of papers by economic sociologists, economists, a psychologist, and an anthropologist to explore the various calculative techniques, narratives, and imaginaries that we use in practice. It is all a far cry from the precise mathematical techniques of the rational expectation world of mainstream DSGE modelling, but none the worse for that. * Charles Goodhart, Emeritus Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics and former member of the Monetary Policy Committee of the Bank of England * Especially when uncertainties produced by innovation are compounded by second-order uncertainties about the reactions of others, what should one do when rational calculation of probabilities based on past data is ineffective in predicting the future? From a diverse range of disciplinary perspectives, the essays in this collection creatively explore the role of imagination a long studied as a source of innovation, but until now neglected as a response to uncertainty. * David Stark, Columbia University and author of The Sense of Dissonance * Economic theory is built on how people make decisions, and in real life all decisions are made under some degree of fundamental uncertainty a people simply do not know what future they face. Uncertain Futures shows that people use works of imagination, or they use narratives, or calculative practices such as business plans, to act in spite of uncertainty. Economics a thanks to Beckert and Bronk a can build upon a much more realistic human foundation than before. A first-rate contribution to the field. * W. Brian Arthur, author of Complexity and the Economy * Author InformationJens Beckert is director of the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne. In 2018 he was awarded the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize for his work reinvigorating the social sciences with an interdisciplinary perspective, especially at the intersection of sociology and economics. His research focuses on the fields of economic sociology, sociology of inheritance, organization theory, and social theory. Richard Bronk is a Visiting Senior Fellow in the European Institute at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He spent seventeen years working in the City of London and the Bank of England before teaching political economy at LSE from 2000-2007. His research now focuses on the role of imagination and language in economics, the dangers of analytical and regulatory monocultures, and the epistemology of markets. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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