Abstract
Economic theories of uncertainty are unpopular with financial experts. As sociologists, we rightly refuse predictions, but the uncertainties of money are constantly sifted and turned into semi-denial by a financial economics set on somehow beating the future. Picking out 'bits' of the future as 'risk' and 'parts' as 'information' is attractive but socially dangerous, I argue, because money's promises are always uncertain. New studies of uncertainty are reversing sociology's neglect of the unavoidable inability to know the forces that will shape the financial future.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 200-224 |
Number of pages | 25 |
Journal | British Journal of Sociology |
Volume | 65 |
Issue number | 2 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 1 Jun 2014 |