Book Vienna 2021: BETWEEN GLOBALISM AND DEMOCRACY
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WOLFGANG STREECK
BETWEEN GLOBALISM AND DEMOCRACY
Political economy in outgoing neoliberalism
Growing prosperity for all was the promise of neoliberalism; the result is a growing inability to tame the capitalist inequality machine. A tug-of-war over the political order has long since begun in many countries. It is time for a fundamental decision, says Wolfgang Streeck in his new book. Will the restructuring of the state system continue as before, in the direction of even greater supranational centralisation? Or would the better solution be to move towards a modern “small state system” based on peaceful co-operation? With the aim of re-founding democratic politics, his vote is clear: in favour of the second path, especially in Europe.
Wolfgang Streeck, Sociologist
Robert Misik, Author and journalist
Wolfgang Streeck, born in 1946, was Director at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne until 2014. He is a member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Academia Europaea, a Corresponding Member of the British Academy and an Honorary Fellow of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics. His book Gekaufte Zeit. Die vertagte Krise des demokratischen Kapitalismus was nominated for the Leipzig Book Fair Prize in the non-fiction/essay category in 2013 and has been translated into 17 languages to date.
Wolfgang Streeck:
Between globalism and democracy
Political economy in outgoing neoliberalism
Suhrkamp Verlag
ISBN: 9783518429686, € 28,00