Printed and bound by MPG Books Group, UK 'Elena Esposito's book is a fundamental analysis of time in economics. With economic rigour underpinned by sociological reasoning, she explains the futures market more clearly than is possible with economic analysis alone. Economic concepts are considered in terms of time-actors deal in the present with future risks by transferring these risks to the present situation. As a result, we get more options and more risks at the same time: at present. No equilibrium will balance these trades because of the asymmetry of time: our actual decisions deal with our imagination of the future, that is, with the future of the present, but the results will be realized in the presence of the future-diff erent modalities of time. The book is a sound refl ection on modelling time in economic theory, a "must" for economists.'-Birger P. Priddat, Witten/Herdecke University, Germany 'The Future of Futures is an original and intellectually provocative book which forces the reader to think. Esposito's essay fulfi ls two rather diff erent functions. On the one hand, it brings new and persuasive arguments to bear against the erroneous thesis that the present fi nancial crisis is merely due to human mistakes and to some specifi c government failures. On the other hand, the book suggests that only by reconsidering the role of time in the economy is it possible to make full sense of the crisis and to reorient in a desired direction the future movements of money. It is a well-known fact that traditional economics has always adhered to a spatial conception of time, according to which time, like space, is perfectly reversible. Whence its inability both to understand how economies develop and to prescribe adequate policies. The author's proposal is to move steps ahead in the direction of an analysis of an economy in time, where both historical time and time as duration can fi nd a place. Esposito's wellwritten, jargon-free book will capture the attention of anyone seriously interested in the future of our market systems.'