{"id":10863,"date":"2026-04-10T12:01:31","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T12:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kreisky-forum.org\/?post_type=kreisky_event&#038;p=10863"},"modified":"2026-04-21T10:45:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T10:45:19","slug":"the-economics-of-fear-the-return-of-the-nervous-age","status":"publish","type":"kreisky_event","link":"https:\/\/www.kreisky-forum.org\/en\/veranstaltung\/oekonomie-der-angst-die-rueckkehr-des-nervoesen-zeitalters","title":{"rendered":"ECONOMY OF FEAR. The return of the nervous age"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>\u201eRathkolb sees great similarities with the time before the First World War and has dared to make a comparison between eras.\u201c <\/em><\/strong><strong>Courier<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Radicalisation, authoritarianism, warmongering, xenophobia and loss of control: we all feel the nervous fever and it reminds us of times long gone.<br>Oliver Rathkolb identifies the cause as the \u00bbfirst and second turbo-globalisation\u00ab. Political upheavals, economic crises and technological innovations overwhelmed national societies and their political elites in the run-up to the First World War, just as they do today - and called the robber barons of the economy onto the scene. Irrational wrong decisions in politics, a polarisation of the population and the feeling of marginalisation of the individual awaken a longing for the \u00bbstrong man\u00ab and simple, often violent solutions to complex problems.<br>Are we facing a new authoritarian era?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Oliver Rathkolb<\/strong>, born in 1955, was a long-standing director and professor at the Institute of Contemporary History at the University of Vienna. He is the author of numerous publications on Austrian and international contemporary and cultural history as well as editor of the journal \u00bbzeitgeschichte\u00ab and chairman of the scientific advisory board of the House of European History in Brussels. Rathkolb is chairman of the Vienna Institute for Culture and Contemporary History (VICCA) and of the scientific advisory board of the Kreisky Forum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Moderation &nbsp;<\/em><strong>Barbara T\u00f3th<\/strong>, journalist, author and historian, senior editor at the city newspaper <em>FALTER<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.styriabooks.at\/shop\/gesellschaft-geschichte\/oekonomie-der-angst\/?srsltid=AfmBOoqrMKHVCfh8UR7MXMmeiru7Ylc-gzVjl-x5eWEBPw1t4GDQZgEP\"><strong><em>Oliver Rathkolb:<\/em><\/strong><\/a><br><strong><em>The economy of fear<br>Molden Verlag, October 2025, 33 \u20ac <\/em><\/strong><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201eRathkolb sieht gro\u00dfe \u00c4hnlichkeiten mit der Zeit vor dem Ersten Weltkrieg und hat sich an einen Epochenvergleich gewagt.\u201c Kurier Radikalisierung, Autoritarismus, Kriegstreiberei, Xenophobie und Kontrollverlust: Wir alle sp\u00fcren das nerv\u00f6se Fieber, und es erinnert uns an l\u00e4ngst vergangen geglaubte Zeiten.Oliver Rathkolb macht die Ursache an der \u00bbersten und zweiten Turboglobalisierung\u00ab fest. Politische Umw\u00e4lzungen, \u00f6konomische Krisen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":10538,"template":"","format":[29],"meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"schwerpunkt":[42],"class_list":["post-10863","kreisky_event","type-kreisky_event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","schwerpunkt-arbeit-wirtschaft-und-soziales","format-podiumsdiskussion"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>\u00d6KONOMIE DER ANGST. 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