dc.contributor.author | Walter, Timo | de |
dc.date.accessioned | 2019-03-28T12:28:07Z | |
dc.date.available | 2019-09-13T23:00:07Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2019 | de |
dc.identifier.issn | 0172-6404 | de |
dc.identifier.uri | https://www.ssoar.info/ssoar/handle/document/61926 | |
dc.description.abstract | Modern ‘inflation targeting’ monetary policy has been one of the prototypes of future-oriented modes of social coordination which in recent years have captured the sociological imagination. Modern central banking is commonly presented as achieving greater efficacy by directly managing economic expectations, in particular when contrasted with the previous heavy-handed, “hydraulic” transmission of policy objectives through systems of economic aggregates. Such empirical claims are mirrored in the theoretical distinction drawn by sociologists between the openness and efficacy of future-oriented coordination of expectations, and the more rigid coordination achieved through formal organizing and formalization. This paper uses the case of the US Federal Reserve’s (Fed) transition to inflation targeting in the 1980s to show how the precision and flexibility of social coordination through expectations in fact relies on extensive formalization and rigid proceduralization. I show that the tightly coupled control relation on which inflation targeting rests is not possible without the constitutive exclusion of other modes of representing and intervening the economy achieved by this formalization. However, the price for the robust and precise reactivity that modern central banking has constructed between key indicators of inflation expectations and the interest rate set by monetary policy is a comprehensive procedural dis-embedding of monetary policy from the structure of economic activities whose path into the future it is meant to govern. The paper concludes that in order to better understand the conditions under which future-oriented modes of coordination fail or succeed, we need to study more closely the formalization of social relations on which they are founded. | de |
dc.language | en | de |
dc.subject.ddc | Wirtschaft | de |
dc.subject.ddc | Economics | en |
dc.subject.ddc | Soziologie, Anthropologie | de |
dc.subject.ddc | Sociology & anthropology | en |
dc.subject.other | Central banks; monetary policy; expectations; futurity; economic coordination; indicators; inflation targeting | de |
dc.title | Formalizing the Future: How Central Banks Set Out to Govern Expectations but Ended Up (En-)Trapped in Indicators | de |
dc.title.alternative | Die Formalisierung der Zukunft: Wie Zentralbanken auszogen, Erwartungen zu steuern und sich dabei in ihren Indikatoren verfingen | de |
dc.description.review | begutachtet (peer reviewed) | de |
dc.description.review | peer reviewed | en |
dc.source.journal | Historical Social Research | |
dc.source.volume | 44 | de |
dc.publisher.country | DEU | |
dc.source.issue | 2 | de |
dc.subject.classoz | Wirtschaftspolitik | de |
dc.subject.classoz | Economic Policy | en |
dc.subject.classoz | Wirtschaftssoziologie | de |
dc.subject.classoz | Sociology of Economics | en |
dc.subject.thesoz | Zentralbank | de |
dc.subject.thesoz | central bank | en |
dc.subject.thesoz | Indikator | de |
dc.subject.thesoz | indicator | en |
dc.subject.thesoz | Geldpolitik | de |
dc.subject.thesoz | monetary policy | en |
dc.subject.thesoz | Formalisierung | de |
dc.subject.thesoz | formalization | en |
dc.subject.thesoz | Makroökonomie | de |
dc.subject.thesoz | macroeconomics | en |
dc.subject.thesoz | Inflation | de |
dc.subject.thesoz | inflation | en |
dc.subject.thesoz | politische Steuerung | de |
dc.subject.thesoz | political governance | en |
dc.subject.thesoz | Governance | de |
dc.subject.thesoz | governance | en |
dc.rights.licence | Creative Commons - Namensnennung 4.0 | de |
dc.rights.licence | Creative Commons - Attribution 4.0 | en |
ssoar.contributor.institution | GESIS | de |
internal.status | noch nicht fertig erschlossen | de |
internal.identifier.thesoz | 10037627 | |
internal.identifier.thesoz | 10047129 | |
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dc.type.stock | article | de |
dc.type.document | Zeitschriftenartikel | de |
dc.type.document | journal article | en |
dc.source.pageinfo | 103-130 | de |
internal.identifier.classoz | 1090302 | |
internal.identifier.classoz | 10205 | |
internal.identifier.journal | 152 | |
internal.identifier.document | 32 | |
internal.identifier.ddc | 330 | |
internal.identifier.ddc | 301 | |
dc.source.issuetopic | Governing by Numbers - Key Indicators and the Politics of Expectations | de |
dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.12759/hsr.44.2019.2.103-130 | de |
dc.description.pubstatus | Veröffentlichungsversion | de |
dc.description.pubstatus | Published Version | en |
internal.identifier.licence | 16 | |
internal.identifier.pubstatus | 1 | |
internal.identifier.review | 1 | |
dc.subject.classhort | 30300 | de |
dc.subject.classhort | 10200 | de |
internal.embargo.terms | 2019-09-13 | |
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