Buying Time: The Delayed Crisis of Democratic

Buying Time: The Delayed Crisis of Democratic Capitalism Wolfgang Streeck
Publisher: Verso Books

I think many liberal and conservative commentators buy their rejection of Marx on the cheap, and it's therefore not worth anything. Buy unique gifts at Boiling Frogs Post. Though I have to So yes, there's obvious reasons for the book now, but I think there are also more subterranean motivations going on that I'll probably know about in ten years' time. Jul 27, 2010 - Thus, if we hold it self-evident that democracy is a better form of regime than dictatorship precisely because it allows for the existence of a freely organised competitive political opposition that can contest power and times compete for it, . This tension was temporarily suspended during the golden age of 'welfare capitalism' after World War 2 but reasserted itself from the 1980′s and led to sequence of events that have shaped the global crisis. Feb 2, 2014 - What I find persistently frustrating with any US political speech the lack of unpacking the "capitalist", "democratic" and "American Way" framework. The UKs manufacturing base that provided secure employment was dismantled and replaced by a liberal labour market with high levels of unemployment, part-time work, undeclared work and flexible contracts. Jul 9, 2012 - There is no legitimacy crisis of the system, no mass-scale revolts questioning the very logic and ethos of democratic capitalism (of the magnitude of the social protest in the late 1960s), because the very social contract has been altered to exclude issues of social safety from the public authority's Yet, not even leftist parties are proposing the de-privatisation of parts of the economy, thus failing to pursue a genuine left agenda exactly when the time seems to be ripe for it. Aug 1, 2011 - I think the book probably comes out of the same situation: when capitalism is in crisis, it becomes newly visible, and becomes a possible object of criticism. May 29, 2013 - But while meticulously exploring the dynamics of yarn production and capitalist valorization, he was succinct when tackling reproductive work, reducing it to the workers' consumption of the commodities their wages can buy and the work . May 29, 2014 - What's more, since the financial crisis began in 2007 and 2008, the fortunes of these dynasties – and the other super-rich who made the Forbes list – had only increased in value. Corporate America can frequently be seen as the emblem of the 'self-made' rich, a representation of a supposedly democratic, capitalist society, where firms are run by “professional managers” who received the right education and developed the ..