"Imagined Futures offers a new explanation for the dynamics of modern capitalism and the restlessness of our economy, based on our temporal orientation. Building on a historical account of how competition and the credit system have forced actors to orient their decisions towards a future that is...

Die Problematik der Ungewissheit hat sich zu einem zentralen theoretischen Ausgangspunkt wirtschaftssoziologischer Forschung entwickelt. Das Papier diskutiert die Frage, inwieweit Ungewissheit tatsächlich als paradigmatischer Ansatzpunkt zur Untersuchung wirtschaftlicher Phänomene aus...

The article provides an overview of the state of the art of sociological research on price formation. The dominant trait of the sociological approach to prices is to understand price formation not as the outcome of individual preferences but as the result of the social and political forces...

Political economy and economic sociology have developed in relative isolation from each other. While political economy focuses largely on macrophenomena, economic sociology focuses on the level of social interaction in the economy. The paper argues that economic sociology can provide a...