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How will capitalism end? : essays on a failing system / Wolfgang Streeck.

by Streeck, Wolfgang, 1946-

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Capitalism -- Forecasting.

Economic policy.

Political corruption.

View a lecture by Wolfgang Streeck on YouTube.

9781784784010 (hc.)

x, 262 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

How will capitalism end? -- The crises of democratic capitalism -- Citizens as customers: considerations on the new politics of consumption -- The rise of the European consolidation state -- Markets and people: democratic capitalism and European integration -- Heller, Schmitt and the euro -- Why the euro divides Europe -- Comment on Wolfgang Merkel, 'Is capitalism compatible with democracy?' -- How to study contemporary capitalism? -- On Fred Block, 'Varieties of what? Should we still be using the concept of capitalism?' -- The public mission of sociology.

"The acclaimed analyst of contemporary politics and economics Wolfgang Streeck argues that capitalism is now in a critical condition. Growth is giving way to secular stagnation; inequality is leading to instability; and confidence in the capitalist money economy has all but evaporated. Capitalism's shotgun marriage with democracy since 1945 is breaking up as the regulatory institutions restraining its advance have collapsed, and after the final victory of capitalism over its enemies no political agency capable of rebuilding them is in sight. The capitalist system is stricken with at least five worsening disorders for which no cure is at hand: declining growth, oligarchy, starvation of the public sphere, corruption and international anarchy. Wolfgang Streeck is the Director of the Max Planck Institute for Social Research in Cologne and Professor of Sociology at the University of Cologne. His previous books include Buying Time: The Delayed Crisis of Democratic Capitalism"--Provided by publisher.

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