Originally, Data Warehouses (DWH) were conceived to be components for the data support ofcontrolling and management. From early on, this brought along the need to cope with extensive datapreparation, integration, and distribution requirements. In the growing infrastructures for managerialsupport...

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?

The paper develops a sociological approach for understanding the role of expectations in collective action. It argues that an approach based on expectations is better suited to explain collective action in episodes of social change than existing sociological theories. Two case studies - one on...

Narratives of the future are a crucial source of the dynamics of capitalism (Beckert 2016). Since there are no future facts, assessments of the future necessarily need to rely on accounts that cannot be limited to the presentation of facts. This means they cannot be true or false, but they can...

Wir untersuchen eine Gewinnsteuer in einer unsicheren Welt. Unser Steuersystem erlaubt einen zeitlich veränderlichen Steuersatz, aus diesem Grund wurde auch eine verallgemeinerte Zinskorrektur (ACE) eingeführt. Die Zinskorrektur ist insofern verallgemeinert, da sie einen Anteil des Produktes...

In a recent paper Loeffler/Schneider (2000) showed that introducing a tax on a financial market does not create an arbitrage opportunity...

Erwartungen spielen für das wirtschaftliche Handeln in kapitalistischen Ökonomien eine zentrale Rolle. Woher aber kommen die Erwartungen der Akteure, auf deren Grundlagen sie Entscheidungen treffen? Der Artikel nähert sich dieser Frage anhand der Darlegung von sieben Formen der sozialen...