Buying Time: The Delayed Crisis of Democratic Capitalism

Wolfgang Streeck

February 07, 2017

MPIfG Book

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Verso, 2017
288 pages
ISBN 978-1-786-63071-1 (paperback)
ISBN 978-1-781-68619-5 (ebook)
ISBN 978-1-781-68549-5 (hardback)

“Reminds one of Karl Marx’s Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte.” (Jürgen Habermas)

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Buying Time: The Delayed Crisis of Democratic Capitalism. London: Verso, 2014.

Abstract

The aftershocks of the economic crisis that began in 2008 still rock the world, and have been followed by a crisis in democratic governance. The gravity of the situation is matched by a general paucity of understanding as to precisely what is happening and how it started.

In this new edition of a highly acclaimed book, Wolfgang Streeck revisits his recent arguments in the light of Brexit and the continued crisis of the EU. These developments are only the latest events in the long neoliberal transformation of postwar capitalism that began in the 1970s, a process that turned states away from tax toward debt as a source of revenue, and from that point into the ‘consolidation state’ of today. Central to this analysis is the changing relationship between capitalism and democracy—in Europe and elsewhere—and the advancing immunization of the former against the latter.


Contents

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Author

Wolfgang Streeck

Wolfgang Streeck is Emeritus Director at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne.

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