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Buying Time: The Delayed Crisis of Democratic Capitalism Wolfgang Streeck
Publisher: Verso Books

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. Without skipping a beat, Reuther replied, “Henry, how are you going to get them to buy your cars?”. Feb 27, 2014 - One of the few positive developments since the crisis has been the increased political salience of the question of pervasive inequality. Jul 9, 2012 - There is no legitimacy crisis of the system, no mass-scale revolts questioning the very logic and ethos of democratic capitalism (of the magnitude of the social protest in the late 1960s), because the very social contract has been altered to exclude issues of social safety from the public authority's Yet, not even leftist parties are proposing the de-privatisation of parts of the economy, thus failing to pursue a genuine left agenda exactly when the time seems to be ripe for it. Her good self) were not limited to the five candidates that actually presented themselves to European voters, .. May 19, 2014 - At the same time, some Department II capitalists are using previously hoarded money-capital to buy large amounts of fixed capital without putting an equivalent amount of value of commodities into circulation. 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. May 8, 2014 - These lectures formed the basis for Streeck's recent book, Gekaufte Zeit, Suhrkamp 2013; the English translation is Buying Time: The Delayed Crisis of Democratic Capitalism, Verso, 2014. After all Hubert we shouldn't forget that Merkel is the Frau “Marktkonforme Demokratie” which says all about her position on democracy and capitalism! May 30, 2014 - Tsipras felt he had to defend this basic democratic principle after Mrs Merkel declared that the heads of government (i.e. Barroso is probably the worst ever — at a time of economic and political crisis, too. All of this is very revealing, because, for a long time, for far too long in fact, advocates of the Anglo-liberal growth model were generally content to ignore the evidence of the growing inequality that was piling up around them. Jul 27, 2010 - Thus, if we hold it self-evident that democracy is a better form of regime than dictatorship precisely because it allows for the existence of a freely organised competitive political opposition that can contest power and times compete for it, . Feb 2, 2014 - Private and public lenders around the world competed with one another by buying the U.S. We know That's the system whereby people earn money to buy goods, and when they have more money than they need to buy goods, they save their money. The second great crisis related to democracy and capitalism resulted in what is known as the “Gilded Age. Capitalism was more committed to “making” things inside the U.S. Those who harbor nostalgic feelings for a time when U.S. Jul 25, 2012 - The following is an explanation of how capitalism subverts and eventually destroys democracy, unless appropriate rules are laid down to separate the influence of money from the electoral process. Debt-backed securities because they were rated as nearly riskless and yet paid high interest rates” (Wolff, “Capitalist Crisis, Marx's Shadow”). Mar 14, 2014 - Structural reforms in labor regulation, corporate governance, competition policy and pension management had already been abandoned or delayed sine die in the summer.