Critical Encounters: Capitalism, Democracy, Ideas Streeck Wolfgang
Critical Encounters: Capitalism, Democracy, Ideas Streeck Wolfgang An anthology of long-read book reviews by one of the European left's foremost political economists.From the acclaimed author of How…
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Critical Encounters: Capitalism, Democracy, Ideas Streeck Wolfgang
An anthology of long-read book reviews by one of the European left's foremost political economists.From the acclaimed author of How Will Capitalism End? Critical Encounters draws on Wolfgang Streeck's inimitable writing for the London Review of Books and New Left Review, among other outlets, and includes pieces originally published in the German press, translated into English for the first time. comes an omnibus of critical engagements with leading economists and thinkers.
A middle section considers the hollowing out of Western democracies, with a review of Yanis Varoufakis's memoirs of the Eurozone crisis.Streeck then delves into the world of ideas, discussing the interests It opens with a survey of three of the world's major economies - the US, France, Germany - and two contrasting historical eras, factory capitalism and financialization.