How Will Capitalism End?
Essays on a Failing System
Published on 8. November 2016
272 pages
978-1-78478-402-7 (ISBN)
Description
After years of ill health, capitalism is now in a critical condition. Growth has given way to stagnation; inequality is leading to instability; and confidence in the money economy has all but evaporated.
In How Will Capitalism End?, the acclaimed analyst of contemporary politics and economics Wolfgang Streeck argues that the world is about to change. The marriage between democracy and capitalism, ill-suited partners brought together in the shadow of World War Two, is coming to an end. The regulatory institutions that once restrained the financial sector's excesses have collapsed and, after the final victory of capitalism at the end of the Cold War, there is no political agency capable of rolling back the liberalization of the markets.
Ours has become a world defined by declining growth, oligarchic rule, a shrinking public sphere, institutional corruption and international anarchy, and no cure to these ills is at hand.
In How Will Capitalism End?, the acclaimed analyst of contemporary politics and economics Wolfgang Streeck argues that the world is about to change. The marriage between democracy and capitalism, ill-suited partners brought together in the shadow of World War Two, is coming to an end. The regulatory institutions that once restrained the financial sector's excesses have collapsed and, after the final victory of capitalism at the end of the Cold War, there is no political agency capable of rolling back the liberalization of the markets.
Ours has become a world defined by declining growth, oligarchic rule, a shrinking public sphere, institutional corruption and international anarchy, and no cure to these ills is at hand.
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English
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London
United Kingdom
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978-1-78478-402-7 (9781784784027)
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Person
Wolfgang Streeck is the director of the Max Planck Institute for Social Research in Cologne and Professor of Sociology at the University of Cologne. He is an Honorary Fellow of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics and a member of the Berlin Brandenburg Academy of Sciences as well as the Academia Europaea.
Content
- Intro
- Halftitle Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- List of Figures
- A Note on the Text
- Introduction
- Chapter One: How Will Capitalism End?
- Chapter Two: The Crises of Democratic Capitalism
- Chapter Three: Citizens as Customers: Considerations on the New Politics of Consumption
- Chapter Four: The Rise of the European Consolidation State
- Chapter Five: Markets and Peoples: Democratic Capitalism and European Integration
- Chapter Six: Heller, Schmitt and the Euro
- Chapter Seven: Why the Euro Divides Europe
- Chapter Eight: Comment on Wolfgang Merkel, 'Is Capitalism Compatible with Democracy?'
- Chapter Nine: How to Study Contemporary Capitalism?
- Chapter Ten: On Fred Block, 'Varieties of What? Should We Still Be Using the Concept of Capitalism?'
- Chapter Eleven: The Public Mission of Sociology
- Notes
- Index
