Buying Time: The Delayed Crisis of Democratic Capitalism by Wolfgang Streeck

Buying Time: The Delayed Crisis of Democratic Capitalism



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Page: 192
ISBN: 9781781685488
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Aug 1, 2012 - Unfortunately, the outcome of crony capitalism buying public office and political influence, as well as dictating national policy, has undermined 200 years of democracy. Most of my political I viewed the economic crisis as being one of capitalism itself – a systemic crisis, primarily concerned with the re-absorption of surplus value, the re-allocation of capital to profitable outlets for investment, but also with identifying or creating these outlets. Sep 15, 2013 - At the same time as joining Labour, I became a member of the Co-operative Party, which exists to represent the interests of the co-operative and mutual enterprise sector and promote forms of economic democracy. Mar 23, 2010 - Stop panicking: Capitalism repeatedly recovers from financial crises, by William Easterly: I am just beginning to dive into the awesome book by Carmen Reinhart and Ken Rogoff, This Time is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly. Mar 28, 2013 - It may be that these difficulties were based upon a falling rate of profit at the time, but even if this was just a crisis of overproduction, the authorities seemed determined to avoid a re-run of the 1930's, particularly at the height of the Cold War with the Soviet Union. May 29, 2013 - But while meticulously exploring the dynamics of yarn production and capitalist valorization, he was succinct when tackling reproductive work, reducing it to the workers' consumption of the commodities their wages can buy and the work . We really did While there was an abundance of cheap energy available, this exhaustion of resources and a simultaneous increase in unwelcome consequences could be concealed for a time. One of the most Meg set all-time spending records in her failed attempt to buy the California governorship; however, she had no political credentials whatsoever… zero… but she did have a big bank account, over $1 billion, and nowadays that's all that is required to qualify for political office. Aug 20, 2013 - URBAN AND ECOLOGICAL DECAY, THE EROSION OF DEMOCRACY, CAPITALISM THE GOD THAT FAILED, AND WHAT IS THE SOLUTION FOR A BETTER WORLD. Posted on It wasn't how much you could buy, how much ahead of your neighbor you could get. Because of the crisis of overproduction (too much produced relative to what the market can afford to buy sustainably) capitalism can no longer even pretend to offer humanity improved living standards.

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