TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2014//
TI  - Uncertainty: the Curate's egg in financial economics
JO  - British journal of sociology
A1  - Pixley, Jocelyn
SP  - 200
EP  - 224
VL  - 65
IS  - 2
N2  - 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.<p />
LA  - en
SN  - 0007-1315
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1468-4446.12070
ID  - ref1
ER  -