Books written by Jens Beckert

  • Death, Deeds, and Descendents: Inheritance in Modern America
    Death, Deeds, and Descendents: Inheritance in Modern America

    ... Theoretical Reasoning and Empirical Evidence. In: European Sociological Review 20, 31-45. Weber, Max, [1922 ], 1978: Economy and Society. Berkeley: University of California Press. Wolff, Edward N., 2002: Top Heavy: A Study of ...

  • Uncertain Futures: Imaginaries, Narratives, and Calculation in the Economy
    Uncertain Futures: Imaginaries, Narratives, and Calculation in the Economy

    This edited volume lays the foundations for a new model of economic reasoning by showing how, in conditions of uncertainty, economic actors combine calculation with imaginaries and narratives to form fictional expectations that coordinate ...

  • Inherited Wealth
    Inherited Wealth

    How to regulate the transfer of wealth from one generation to the next has been hotly debated among politicians, legal scholars, sociologists, economists, and philosophers for centuries. Bequeathing wealth is...

  • Beyond the Market: The Social Foundations of Economic Efficiency
    Beyond the Market: The Social Foundations of Economic Efficiency

    Containing one of the most fully informed critiques of the neoclassical analysis of economic efficiency--as well as one of the most thoughtful blueprints for economic sociology--this book reclaims for sociology the study of one of the most ...

  • Inherited Wealth
    Inherited Wealth

    ... law and testamentary freedom side by side, though he gave clear priority to the family in inheritance law, ... for the family and limitations on testamentary freedom: In the German conception, inheritance law is based on family law, ...

  • The Worth of Goods: Valuation and Pricing in the Economy
    The Worth of Goods: Valuation and Pricing in the Economy

    This pioneering volume brings together leading social scientists to provide a range of theoretical tools and case studies for understanding price and the creation of value in markets within social and cultural contexts and preconditions.

  • International Encyclopedia of Economic Sociology
    International Encyclopedia of Economic Sociology

    Dealing with the multiple and complex relations between economy and society, this encyclopedia focuses on the impact of social, political, and cultural factors on economic behaviour.

  • Imagined Futures: Fictional Expectations and Capitalist Dynamics
    Imagined Futures: Fictional Expectations and Capitalist Dynamics

    Jens Beckert adds a new chapter to the theory of capitalism by demonstrating how fictional expectations drive modern economies—or throw them into crisis when the imagined futures fail to materialize.

  • Inherited Wealth
    Inherited Wealth

    "--Richard Swedberg, Cornell University "Inherited Wealth is a fine piece of scholarship, worth reading from beginning to end. We learn much in this book.

  • The Architecture of Illegal Markets: Towards an Economic Sociology of Illegality in the Economy
    The Architecture of Illegal Markets: Towards an Economic Sociology of Illegality in the Economy

    This book makes a contribution to understanding the structure of markets on which such illegal transactions occur.

  • International Encyclopedia of Economic Sociology
    International Encyclopedia of Economic Sociology

    The International Encyclopedia of Economic Sociology is the first encyclopedia in the field and a timely response to the surge of interest in economic sociology over the last 30 years.

  • The Worth of Goods: Valuation and Pricing in the Economy
    The Worth of Goods: Valuation and Pricing in the Economy

    Drawing on theory and empirical research, this interdisciplinary book brings together leading social scientists to examine how prices are set and how values emerge inside and outside of markets, which have become the central force in the ...