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Jens Beckert

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Max-Planck-Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung
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Köln, Germany
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Working papers

  1. Beckert, Jens & Arndt, H. Lukas R., 2024. "The Greek tragedy: Narratives and imagined futures in the Greek sovereign debt crisis," MPIfG Discussion Paper 24/4, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies.
  2. Beckert, Jens, 2024. "What makes an imagined future credible?," MPIfG Discussion Paper 24/5, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies.
  3. Beckert, Jens, 2022. "Verkaufte Zukunft: Dilemmata des globalen Kapitalismus in der Klimakrise," MPIfG Discussion Paper 22/7, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies.
  4. Bronk, Richard & Beckert, Jens, 2022. "The instability of preferences: Uncertain futures and the incommensurable and intersubjective nature of value(s)," MPIfG Discussion Paper 22/1, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies.
  5. Beckert, Jens & Ergen, Timur, 2020. "Transcending history's heavy hand: The future in economic action," MPIfG Discussion Paper 20/3, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies.
  6. Bronk, Richard & Beckert, Jens, 2019. "Uncertain futures: imaginaries, narratives and calculative technologies," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 103091, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
  7. Beckert, Jens, 2017. "Die Historizität fiktionaler Erwartungen," MPIfG Discussion Paper 17/8, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies.
  8. Beckert, Jens, 2017. "Woher kommen Erwartungen? Die soziale Strukturierung imaginierter Zukünfte," MPIfG Discussion Paper 17/17, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies.
  9. Beckert, Jens & Arndt, H. Lukas R., 2016. "Unverdientes Vermögen oder illegitimer Eingriff in das Eigentumsrecht? Der öffentliche Diskurs um die Erbschaftssteuer in Deutschland und Österreich," MPIfG Discussion Paper 16/8, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies.
  10. Jens Beckert & Wolfgang Streeck, 2015. "Economic Sociology and Political Economy: A Programmatic Perspective," Working Papers id:6403, eSocialSciences.
  11. Korom, Philipp & Lutter, Mark & Beckert, Jens, 2015. "The enduring importance of family wealth: Evidence from the Forbes 400, 1982 to 2013," MPIfG Discussion Paper 15/8, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies.
  12. Beckert, Jens, 2014. "Capitalist dynamics fictional expectations and the openness of the future," MPIfG Discussion Paper 14/7, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies.
  13. Beckert, Jens & Rössel, Jörg & Schenk, Patrick, 2014. "Wine as a cultural product: Symbolic capital and price formation in the wine field," MPIfG Discussion Paper 14/2, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies.
  14. Rössel, Jörg & Beckert, Jens, 2012. "Quality classifications in competition: Price formation in the German wine market," MPIfG Discussion Paper 12/3, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies.
  15. Beckert, Jens, 2012. "Capitalism as a system of contingent expectations: Toward a sociological microfoundation of political economy," MPIfG Discussion Paper 12/4, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies.
  16. Beckert, Jens, 2011. "Where do prices come from? Sociological approaches to price formation," MPIfG Discussion Paper 11/3, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies.
  17. Beckert, Jens, 2011. "Die Sittlichkeit der Wirtschaft: Von Effizienz- und Differenzierungstheorien zu einer Theorie wirtschaftlicher Felder," MPIfG Working Paper 11/8, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies.
  18. Beckert, Jens, 2011. "Imagined futures. Fictionality in economic action," MPIfG Discussion Paper 11/8, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies.
  19. Beckert, Jens & Wehinger, Frank, 2011. "In the shadow illegal markets and economic sociology," MPIfG Discussion Paper 11/9, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies.
  20. Beckert, Jens, 2010. "Are we still modern? Inheritance law and the broken promise of the enlightenment," MPIfG Working Paper 10/7, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies.
  21. Beckert, Jens, 2010. "The transcending power of goods: Imaginative value in the economy," MPIfG Discussion Paper 10/4, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies.
  22. Beckert, Jens & Besedovsky, Natalia, 2009. "Die Wirtschaft als Thema der Soziologie: Zur Entwicklung wirtschaftssoziologischer Forschung in Deutschland und den USA," MPIfG Discussion Paper 09/1, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies.
  23. Beckert, Jens, 2009. "Die Anspruchsinflation des Wirtschaftssystems," MPIfG Working Paper 09/10, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies.
  24. Beckert, Jens, 2009. "Koordination und Verteilung: Zwei Ansätze der Wirtschaftssoziologie," MPIfG Discussion Paper 09/2, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies.
  25. Beckert, Jens, 2009. "Pragmatismus und wirtschaftliches Handeln," MPIfG Working Paper 09/4, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies.
  26. Beckert, Jens, 2007. "Die soziale Ordnung von Märkten," MPIfG Discussion Paper 07/6, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies.
  27. Beckert, Jens, 2007. "The Great Transformation of Embeddedness: Karl Polanyi and the New Economic Sociology," MPIfG Discussion Paper 07/1, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies.
  28. Beckert, Jens, 2007. "Wie viel Erbschaftssteuern?," MPIfG Working Paper 07/4, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies.
  29. Streeck, Wolfgang (Ed.) & Beckert, Jens (Ed.), 2007. "Moralische Voraussetzungen und Grenzen wirtschaftlichen Handelns," MPIfG Working Paper 07/6, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies.
  30. Beckert, Jens, 2007. "The social order of markets," MPIfG Discussion Paper 07/15, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies.
  31. Beckert, Jens, 2006. "Sind Unternehmen sozial verantwortlich?," MPIfG Working Paper 06/4, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies.
  32. Beckert, Jens, 2005. "The Moral Embeddedness of Markets," MPIfG Discussion Paper 05/6, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies.
  33. Beckert, Jens, 2005. "Trust and the Performative Construction of Markets," MPIfG Discussion Paper 05/8, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies.

Articles

  1. Jens Beckert, 2022. "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, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 4(3-4), September.
  2. Jens Beckert, 2021. "Les fictions comme moteur du capitalisme," Regards croisés sur l'économie, La Découverte, vol. 0(2), pages 190-199.
  3. Jens Beckert, 2020. "The exhausted futures of neoliberalism: from promissory legitimacy to social anomy," Journal of Cultural Economy, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 13(3), pages 318-330, May.
  4. Beckert Jens, 2018. "Woher kommen Erwartungen?: Die soziale Strukturierung imaginierter Zukünfte," Jahrbuch für Wirtschaftsgeschichte / Economic History Yearbook, De Gruyter, vol. 59(2), pages 507-523, May.
  5. Beckert, Jens, 2016. "Fictional expectations and the crisis of contemporary capitalism," economic sociology. perspectives and conversations, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, vol. 17(2), pages 39-45.
  6. Jens Beckert, 2013. "Capitalism as a System of Expectations," Politics & Society, , vol. 41(3), pages 323-350, September.
  7. Jens Beckert, 2006. "The Social Organization of Interpretation. Comment," Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics (JITE), Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen, vol. 162(1), pages 194-198, March.
  8. Jens Beckert, 2006. "Interpenetration Versus Embeddedness," American Journal of Economics and Sociology, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 65(1), pages 161-188, January.
  9. Beckert, Jens, 2006. "Jens Beckert answers ten questions about economic sociology," economic sociology. perspectives and conversations, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, vol. 7(3), pages 34-39.
  10. Jens Beckert, 2003. "Economic Sociology and Embeddedness: How Shall We Conceptualize Economic Action?," Journal of Economic Issues, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 37(3), pages 769-787, September.
  11. Beckert, Jens & Zorn, Dirk, 2001. "Note from the editors," economic sociology. perspectives and conversations, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, vol. 3(1), pages 1-2.
  12. Beckert, Jens, 2000. "Economic sociology in Germany," economic sociology. perspectives and conversations, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, vol. 1(2), pages 2-7.

Books

  1. Beckert, Jens & Musselin, Christine (ed.), 2013. "Constructing Quality: The Classification of Goods in Markets," OUP Catalogue, Oxford University Press, number 9780199677573.
  2. Beckert, Jens & Aspers, Patrik (ed.), 2011. "The Worth of Goods: Valuation and Pricing in the Economy," OUP Catalogue, Oxford University Press, number 9780199594658.
  3. Beckert, Jens & Ebbinghaus, Bernhard & Hassel, Anke & Manow, Philip (ed.), 2006. "Transformationen des Kapitalismus: Festschrift für Wolfgang Streeck zum sechzigsten Geburtstag," Schriften aus dem Max-Planck-Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung Köln, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, volume 57, number 57.

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  1. NEP-BIG: Big Data (1) 2024-08-26
  2. NEP-CMP: Computational Economics (1) 2024-08-26
  3. NEP-CUL: Cultural Economics (1) 2014-03-30
  4. NEP-EEC: European Economics (1) 2024-08-26

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