Buying Time: The Delayed Crisis of Democratic Capitalism. Second Edition, With a New Preface. Verso Books, London and New York 2017.
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Book Chapter – A New Regime: The Consolidation State
A New Regime: The Consolidation State. In: King, Desmond and Patrick Le Galès (Eds.), Reconfiguring European States in Crisis. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2017, 139-157.
„Great Disorder under Heaven”: The Crisis of the Global State System
Essay presented at Gaidar Forum 2017, „Russia and the World: Setting Priorities”, RANEPA Academy, Moscow, January 12-14, 2017, Panel discussion „Global Transformation in the Mirror of Historical Sociology“.
Other contributions by Georgi Derluguian, Monica Prasad, Mishaal Al Gergawi and Ho-Fung Hung.
Discussion topic: The majority of the future forecasts of the 20th century was based on the growth prospects, whether of the economy, science and engineering, or population, or recovery of specific countries and regions. The first decades of the new 21st century brought considerable disillusion verging on disappointment in the modernistic pattern of steady progress. From everywhere, one can hear some doubts not only in the usefulness, but already in the inconvertibility of globalization. What is journalistic noise and what is really captured by the methods of modern science? This session offers a kind of stress test for the world powers. Leading academic experts analyze the prospects of traditional centers of capitalism and newly emerging market regions.
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Video (English)
Video (Russian)
Conference Program [PDF]
Rezension: Saskia Sassen, „Expulsions. Brutality and Complexity in the Global Economy“
Erschienen in Soziologische Revue, 40(1), 2017, 112-115.
Rezension von Saskia Sassen, „Expulsions. Brutality and Complexity in the Global Economy“, Harvard University Press: Harvard, 2014.
Lehman Sisters, or the Third Way to European Social Democracy
Review of Sylvia Walby, Crisis, Polity: Cambridge, 2015.
Appeared in European Journal of Sociology, Vol. 57 (2016), No. 3, 563-567.
Starke Märkte, schwacher Staat: Warum der Kapitalismus die Demokratie bedroht
Radiobeitrag für SWR2 in zwei Teilen, gesendet am 15. und 22. Januar 2017
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Audio-Mitschnitt, Teil 1
Audio-Mitschnitt, Teil 2
Manuskript, Teil 1
Manuskript, Teil 2
« Marx n’avait pas prévu Keynes »
Interview publié dans le magazine Books, Janvier/Février 2017, pp. 28-30
Que pouvons-nous encore apprendre de Karl Marx ?
D’abord que notre société est une société historique, qui s’inscrit dans un flux d’événements. Et ensuite que ce flux d’événements s’ordonne de façon structurelle, que l’évolution de la société obéit donc à une logique qu’il nous faut comprendre pour pouvoir interpréter ce qui se passe. Cette logique est difficile à reconstruire, mais elle dynamise de façon extraordinaire la théorie et l’expérience historique. (…)
Interview: Capitalism Breeds Reckless Consumption and Starves the Public Sphere
Truth-Out.org, December 11, 2016
You cite the end of WWII as the time that capitalism and democracy became intractably enmeshed. How did it come to be that Western democracies came to assert that freedom could not exist without capitalism?
The way I would put it is that they became temporarily reconciled through Keynes‘ discovery that economic growth can be stimulated by redistribution from the wealthy to the poor. But „intractably enmeshed“ they were precisely not, as we have seen in recent decades when they were extricated from one another in the course of the neoliberal revolution. The pattern that emerged was what I call Hayekian statism: a strong state preventing democratic-egalitarian interference with markets, to allow the market to do its work — redistribute according to market rules, i.e., from the bottom to the top. Weiterlesen
L’Allemagne et l’Europe
Le Débat, Numéro 192, Novembre-Décembre 2016, pp. 67-81
Le présent article a initialement paru dans la London Review of Books, Vol. 38, No. 7, Mars 2016.
Come Sarà La Nostra Società Nei Prossimi Decenni?
In: Carlo Bordoni (Ed.): Immaginare Il Futuro: La Società Di Domani Vista Dagli Intellettuali Di Oggi, Milano/Udine: Mimesis/Eterotopie, 2016, pp. 143-148.
Wolfgang Streeck 