CAPITALISM ON EDGE

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CAPITALISM ON EDGE
How Fighting Precarity Can Achieve Radical Change Without Crisis or Utopia

"With great insight, Albena Azmanova gives us a new way of understanding modern capitalism (...) Thoroughly researched, powerfully argued.”
Robert B. Reich, former U.S. Secretary of Labor

Albena Azmanova, Associate Professor in Political and Social Theory, University of Kent, Brussels School of International Studies Author

Ivan Krastev, Chairman of the Centre for Liberal Strategies, Sofia, Permanent Fellow of the Institute for Human Sciences (IWM), Vienna

Moderation Robert Misik, Author and Journalist

The wake of the financial crisis has inspired hopes for dramatic change and stirred visions of capitalism's terminal collapse. Yet capitalism is not on its deathbed, utopia is not in our future, and revolution is not in the cards. In Capitalism on Edge, Albena Azmanova demonstrates that radical progressive change is still attainable, but it must come from an unexpected direction.

Albena Azmanova teaches political and social theory at the University of Kent's Brussels School of International Studies. She is author of The Scandal of Reason: A Critical Theory of Political Judgment (Columbia, 2012) and coeditor of Reclaiming Democracy: Judgment, Responsibility, and the Right to Politics (2015). She has also been a policy adviser to the United Nations, the Council of Europe, the European Parliament, the European Commission, and Transparency International.

Her latest book was published by Columbia University Press in January 2020.