Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Chairs: Winfried Fluck / Fabian Lindner (FU Berlin)

1. Fabian Lindner (FU Berlin): Discounting an Uncertain Future: The Role of Narratives in Economics
2. Eric Erbacher (Paderborn): Selling the Inner City – Narrative Constructions of Urban Imaginaries at the Turn of the Millennium
3. Priscilla Walton (Carleton University): Bankruptcies of Meaning: Enron Post 9/11
4. Birte Horn (Duisburg-Essen): The Value of a Margarita Machine, or: Explaining the Mystery of the American Economy in South Park’s ‘Margaritaville’
5. Dennis Mischke (Bochum): “It’s not Cricket”: Confidence Games and Games of Confidence  - an Economic Reading of Joseph O’ Neill’s Netherland
6. Winfried Fluck (FU Berlin): Reading Stock Market Reports