Capitalist dynamics is energized in part by imaginaries of future states of the world (Beckert 2016). The paper deals with two questions: Why do fictional expectations change in the course of capitalist development? And: Are fictional expectations becoming more important in contemporary capitalism?

Die Mehrheit des wissenschaftlichen Personals an den Hochschulen und außeruniversitären Forschungseinrichtungen in Deutschland ist heute befristet beschäftigt. Der Beitrag rekonstruiert die Ursachen und Dynamiken dieser Entwicklung, die in den 1970er-Jahren begann, am Gegenstand der...

Der Bekleidungseinzelhandel beendete das Jahr 2004 erneut mit einem Umsatzrückgang, der zwischen 2 und 3% gelegen haben dürfte. Eine schwache Nachfrage nach Bekleidung, aber vor allem sinkende Durchschnittspreise führen zu dieser negativen Umsatzentwicklung, Im Schuheinzelhandel waren die...

Im Bekleidungseinzelhandel gewinnt der Online-Handel immer höhere Marktanteile. Dabei entwickeln sich die etablierten Online-Händler zunehmend von Marktteilnehmern zu Marktanbietern. Diese Marktstrategie eröffnet dem stationären Handel neues Geschäftspotenzial. Denn einem beträchtlichen...

Monetary policy in the euro area is conducted within a multi-country, multi-cultural, and multi-lingual context involving multiple central banking traditions. How does this heterogeneity affect the ability of economic agents to understand and to anticipate monetary policy by the ECB? Using a...

Except for the Philippines between 1896 and 1939, Southeast Asia was never part of the century-long East Asian industrial catching up until after World War II. Before the 1950s, Southeast Asian manufacturing hardly grew at all: while commodity export processing did grow fast, import-competing...

In my view, globalization is a process that has taken place episodically since approximately the beginning of the 16th century. Previously, there were a number of attemps at globalization, which however failed to attain the precondition of regular commercial and communicative relationships among...

Infrastructure and especially mass transit play a major role in urban economics and are the centre of many research questions. Probably due to simultaneous determination of infrastructure supply and demand most research is only carried out on the supply side driven relationship explaining how...