Economic forecasts are utilized to decrease uncertainty relating to planning processes of companies and governments …

Uncertainty has become a central theoretical vantage point in economic sociology. This paper explores the question of … whether uncertainty can actually be the paradigmatic vantage point for a sociological perspective on the economy. I argue that … is not incompatible with developing an approach to economic sociology based on the problem of uncertainty, it does …

could be due to precautionary saving. In this paper, the importance of precautionary saving against income uncertainty is … alternative measures of income uncertainty in a cross-section of households. In addition to the usual controls, risk aversion is … about 20%. Compared with net financial wealth, housing wealth is not used as a bu®er stock against income uncertainty …