The Crisis of Contemporary Capitalism

Wolfgang Streeck

The starting point for the projects under this title are studies that began in 2005 and explored aspects of the fiscal crisis of the state in contemporary capitalism, with special attention paid to the global financial crisis of 2008. The long-term intention is to contribute to a political-economic theory of institutional change and state action in modern capitalist societies. The most recent book, published in 2020 and translated into French, Spanish, Italian, and English, investigates alternative paths of state and democratic institutional development after the breakdown of neoliberalism as a hegemonic concept of political economy.