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How will capitalism end? : essays on a failing system

By: Streeck, Wolfgang
Publisher: London : Verso, c2017.Description: x, 262 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9781786632982Other title: How will capitalism end.Subject(s): Capitalism | Capitalism -- History | Economic policyDDC classification: 330.122 WO HO Online resources: Location Map
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Argues that capitalism is now in 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. Streeck asks whether we are witnessing a long and painful period of cumulative decay: of intensifying frictions, of fragility and uncertainty, and of a steady succession of normal accidents. --From publisher description.
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Argues that capitalism is now in 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. Streeck asks whether we are witnessing a long and painful period of cumulative decay: of intensifying frictions, of fragility and uncertainty, and of a steady succession of normal accidents. --From publisher description.

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