CAN NEOLIBERALISM STILL BE SAVED?

Colin Crouch, born in 1944, taught Governance and Public Management at Warwick Business School until his retirement. For his book The Strange Survival of Neoliberalism, Crouch received the »Das politische Buch« prize from the Friedrich Ebert Foundation in 2012.

Moderation Robert Misik, Author and journalist

The fact that neoliberalism does not exist, that it is just a »fighting term«, has become one of the main arguments (the last?) of its defenders. Few authors have contributed as much to the understanding of this concept as Colin Crouch. In the face of right-wing populist resistance to the radical market form of globalisation, growing inequality and tragedies such as the Grenfell Tower fire in London, Crouch now asks whether neoliberalism can still be saved. Beyond polemical »demonology« and without throwing the baby out with the bathwater, he analyses the weak points of this approach. With its inherent blindness to its social side-effects, neoliberalism, according to Crouch, has finally become self-destructive. Will the corporations and individuals who have benefited from it so far realise this and finally change course?

THE EVENT WILL BE HELD IN ENGLISH.

Colin Crouch: Can neoliberalism still be saved?
Translated from the English by Frank Jakubzik
suhrkamp paperback 4942, October 2018
ISBN: 978-3-518-46942-2; also available as an eBook

Photo credit: Jürgen Bauer