Buying Time: The Delayed Crisis of Democratic Capitalism - Couverture souple

Streeck, Wolfgang

 
9781781685488: Buying Time: The Delayed Crisis of Democratic Capitalism
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1781685487 ISBN 13 : 9781781685488
Editeur : Verso Books, 2014

Synopsis

The financial crisis keeps us on edge and creates a diffuse sense of helplessness. Well-nigh unfathomable problems lead to measures that seem like emergency operations on the open heart of the Western world, performed with no knowledge of the patient's clinical history. The gravity of the situation is matched by the paucity of our understanding of it, and of how it came about in the first place. In this book, compiled from his Adorno Lectures given in Frankfurt, Wolfgang Streeck lays bare the roots of the present financial, fiscal and economic crisis, seeing it as part of the long neoliberal transformation of postwar capitalism that began in the 1970s. Linking up with the crisis theories of that decade, he analyses the subsequent tensions and conflicts involving states, governments, voters and capitalist interests - a process in which the defining focus of the European state system has shifted from taxation through debt to budgetary 'consolidation'. The book then ends by exploring the prospects for a restoration of social and economic stability. Buying Time is a model of enlightenment. It shows that something deeply disturbing underlies the current situation: a metamorphosis of the whole relationship between democracy and capitalism.

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À propos de l'auteur

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.

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Éditeur
Verso Books
Date d'édition
2014
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1781685487
ISBN 13 
9781781685488
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
192
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ISBN 10 :  1781685495 ISBN 13 :  9781781685495
Editeur : Verso Books, 2014
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