Beckert (Jens), Imagined Futures. Fictional Expectations and Capitalist Dynamics.

Summary This book, devoted to the conditions under which economic actors project themselves into the future in a capitalist regime, is both an ambitious theoretical essay and the outline of a vast research program that J. Beckert intends to include in a more general project: to build a bridge between the tradition of political economy (oriented towards institutional dynamics and macro-social phenomena) and that of economic sociology, more inclined to observe, at the microsocial level, individual actions and interactions. [First paragraph].