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Buying Time: The Delayed Crisis of Democratic Capitalism
Wolfgang Streeck
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Hardcover. "Reminds one of Karl Marx's Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte." - Jurgen Habermas Translator(s): Camiller, Patrick. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 1QFE; JPHV; JPSN2; KCS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 218 x 151 x 19. Weight in Grams: 412.
The financial and economic crisis that began in 2008 still has the world on tenterhooks. The gravity of the situation is matched by a general paucity of understanding about what is happening and how it started. In this book, based on his 2012 Adorno Lectures given in Frankfurt, Wolfgang Streeck places the crisis in the context of the long neoliberal transformation of postwar capitalism that began in the 1970s. He analyses the subsequent tensions and conflicts involving states, governments, voters and capitalist interests, as expressed in inflation, public debt, and rising private indebtedness. Streeck traces the transformation of the tax ... Read more
The financial and economic crisis that began in 2008 still has the world on tenterhooks. The gravity of the situation is matched by a general paucity of understanding about what is happening and how it started. In this book, based on his 2012 Adorno Lectures given in Frankfurt, Wolfgang Streeck places the crisis in the context of the long neoliberal transformation of postwar capitalism that began in the 1970s. He analyses the subsequent tensions and conflicts involving states, governments, voters and capitalist interests, as expressed in inflation, public debt, and rising private indebtedness. Streeck traces the transformation of the tax ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Verso
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781781685495
SKU
V9781781685495
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About Wolfgang Streeck
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 has previously held positions in Frankfurt, New York, Munster, and Berlin, and he was professor of sociology and industrial relations at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He is an Honorary Fellow of the Society for ... Read more
Reviews for Buying Time: The Delayed Crisis of Democratic Capitalism
In its best parts - when political passion connects with critical exposition of the facts and incisive argument - Streeck's sweeping and empirically founded inquiry reminds one of Karl Marx's Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte. - Jurgen Habermas Is electoral democracy compatible with the type of economic policies the EU - backed at a distance by Washington and ... Read more