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Working Papers

2024

1. The Greek tragedy: Narratives and imagined futures in the Greek sovereign debt crisis
   MPIfG Discussion Paper, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies
2. What makes an imagined future credible?
   MPIfG Discussion Paper, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies

2022

3. The instability of preferences: Uncertain futures and the incommensurable and intersubjective nature of value(s)
   MPIfG Discussion Paper, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies
4. Verkaufte Zukunft: Dilemmata des globalen Kapitalismus in der Klimakrise
   MPIfG Discussion Paper, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies

2020

5. Transcending history's heavy hand: The future in economic action
   MPIfG Discussion Paper, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies

2019

6. Uncertain futures: Imaginaries, narratives, and calculative technologies
   MPIfG Discussion Paper, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies View citations (2)
   Also in LSE Research Online Documents on Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library (2019) View citations (2)

2017

7. Die Historizität fiktionaler Erwartungen
   MPIfG Discussion Paper, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies
8. Woher kommen Erwartungen? Die soziale Strukturierung imaginierter Zukünfte
   MPIfG Discussion Paper, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies View citations (1)
   See also Journal Article Woher kommen Erwartungen?: Die soziale Strukturierung imaginierter Zukünfte, Jahrbuch für Wirtschaftsgeschichte / Economic History Yearbook, De Gruyter (2018) (2018)

2016

9. Unverdientes Vermögen oder illegitimer Eingriff in das Eigentumsrecht? Der öffentliche Diskurs um die Erbschaftssteuer in Deutschland und Österreich
   MPIfG Discussion Paper, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies View citations (1)

2015

10. Economic Sociology and Political Economy: A Programmatic Perspective
    Working Papers, eSocialSciences
    Also in MPIfG Working Paper, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies (2008) View citations (9)
11. The enduring importance of family wealth: Evidence from the Forbes 400, 1982 to 2013
    MPIfG Discussion Paper, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies

2014

12. Capitalist dynamics fictional expectations and the openness of the future
    MPIfG Discussion Paper, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies View citations (1)
13. Wine as a cultural product: Symbolic capital and price formation in the wine field
    MPIfG Discussion Paper, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies View citations (5)

2012

14. Capitalism as a system of contingent expectations: Toward a sociological microfoundation of political economy
    MPIfG Discussion Paper, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies View citations (2)
15. Quality classifications in competition: Price formation in the German wine market
    MPIfG Discussion Paper, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies View citations (3)

2011

16. Die Sittlichkeit der Wirtschaft: Von Effizienz- und Differenzierungstheorien zu einer Theorie wirtschaftlicher Felder
    MPIfG Working Paper, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies
17. Imagined futures. Fictionality in economic action
    MPIfG Discussion Paper, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies View citations (7)
18. In the shadow illegal markets and economic sociology
    MPIfG Discussion Paper, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies View citations (9)
19. Where do prices come from? Sociological approaches to price formation
    MPIfG Discussion Paper, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies View citations (24)

2010

20. Are we still modern? Inheritance law and the broken promise of the enlightenment
    MPIfG Working Paper, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies View citations (4)
21. The transcending power of goods: Imaginative value in the economy
    MPIfG Discussion Paper, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies View citations (5)

2009

22. Die Anspruchsinflation des Wirtschaftssystems
    MPIfG Working Paper, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies View citations (4)
23. Die Wirtschaft als Thema der Soziologie: Zur Entwicklung wirtschaftssoziologischer Forschung in Deutschland und den USA
    MPIfG Discussion Paper, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies View citations (2)
24. Koordination und Verteilung: Zwei Ansätze der Wirtschaftssoziologie
    MPIfG Discussion Paper, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies
25. Pragmatismus und wirtschaftliches Handeln
    MPIfG Working Paper, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies

2007

26. Die soziale Ordnung von Märkten
    MPIfG Discussion Paper, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies View citations (5)
27. Moralische Voraussetzungen und Grenzen wirtschaftlichen Handelns
    MPIfG Working Paper, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies View citations (3)
28. The Great Transformation of Embeddedness: Karl Polanyi and the New Economic Sociology
    MPIfG Discussion Paper, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies View citations (21)
29. The social order of markets
    MPIfG Discussion Paper, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies View citations (29)
30. Wie viel Erbschaftssteuern?
    MPIfG Working Paper, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies View citations (3)

2006

31. Sind Unternehmen sozial verantwortlich?
    MPIfG Working Paper, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies View citations (2)

2005

32. The Moral Embeddedness of Markets
    MPIfG Discussion Paper, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies View citations (9)
33. Trust and the Performative Construction of Markets
    MPIfG Discussion Paper, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies View citations (11)

Journal Articles

2022

1. 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
   Futures & Foresight Science, 2022, 4, (3-4)

2021

2. Les fictions comme moteur du capitalisme
   Regards croisés sur l'économie, 2021, n° 29, (2), 190-199

2020

3. The exhausted futures of neoliberalism: from promissory legitimacy to social anomy
   Journal of Cultural Economy, 2020, 13, (3), 318-330 View citations (5)

2018

4. Woher kommen Erwartungen?: Die soziale Strukturierung imaginierter Zukünfte
   Jahrbuch für Wirtschaftsgeschichte / Economic History Yearbook, 2018, 59, (2), 507-523
   See also Working Paper Woher kommen Erwartungen? Die soziale Strukturierung imaginierter Zukünfte, MPIfG Discussion Paper (2017) View citations (1) (2017)

2016

5. Fictional expectations and the crisis of contemporary capitalism
   economic sociology. perspectives and conversations, 2016, 17, (2), 39-45 View citations (1)

2013

6. Capitalism as a System of Expectations
   Politics & Society, 2013, 41, (3), 323-350 View citations (7)

2006

7. Interpenetration Versus Embeddedness
   American Journal of Economics and Sociology, 2006, 65, (1), 161-188 View citations (2)
8. Jens Beckert answers ten questions about economic sociology
   economic sociology. perspectives and conversations, 2006, 7, (3), 34-39 View citations (1)
9. The Social Organization of Interpretation. Comment
   Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics (JITE), 2006, 162, (1), 194-198

2003

10. Economic Sociology and Embeddedness: How Shall We Conceptualize Economic Action?
    Journal of Economic Issues, 2003, 37, (3), 769-787 View citations (36)

2002

11. Note from the editors
    economic sociology. perspectives and conversations, 2002, 3, (3), 2
    Also in economic sociology. perspectives and conversations, 2001, 3, (1), 2 (2001)
    economic sociology. perspectives and conversations, 2002, 3, (2), 2 (2002)

2000

12. Economic sociology in Germany
    economic sociology. perspectives and conversations, 2000, 1, (2), 2-7 View citations (28)

Edited books

2013

1. Constructing Quality: The Classification of Goods in Markets
   OUP Catalogue, Oxford University Press View citations (16)

2011

2. The Worth of Goods: Valuation and Pricing in the Economy
   OUP Catalogue, Oxford University Press View citations (62)

2006

3. Transformationen des Kapitalismus: Festschrift für Wolfgang Streeck zum sechzigsten Geburtstag, vol 57
   Schriften aus dem Max-Planck-Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung Köln, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies View citations (6)