Buying Time: The Delayed Crisis of Democratic Capitalism

摘要: The financial and economic crisis that began in 2008 still has the world on tenterhooks. gravity of situation is matched by a general paucity understanding about what happening how it started. In this book, based his 2012 Adorno Lectures given Frankfurt, Wolfgang Streeck places context long neoliberal transformation postwar capitalism 1970s. He analyses subsequent tensions conflicts involving states, governments, voters capitalist interests, as expressed inflation, public debt, rising private indebtedness. traces tax state into debt state, from there consolidation today. At centre analysis changing relationship between democracy, Europe elsewhere, advancing immunization former against latter.