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

Maybe nobody agreed with Genovese For Johnson, the classic period of the antebellum South was not just an endless performance of anxious white masculinity; it was also the site of a series of capitalist crises on the Harvey model. 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. Feb 14, 2014 - Buying time: The delayed crisis of democratic capitalism – a review. May 23, 2014 - Crisis-driven worker-led transitions of previously capitalist enterprises into collective ventures in countries as diverse as Argentina, Greece, Italy and the United States offer new hope for a future rising out of the ashes. To rework that oft-quoted maxim of late capitalism – 'It is easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism- but it is easier to imagine the end of capitalism than the restoration of social democracy'. Aug 26, 2013 - Two decades of endless debate followedGenovese's synthesis, recycling the basic concepts of “agency” and “hegemony” long after the midcentury social democratic moment that inspired them had disappeared. He outlined his ideas in the book, Beyond Rather its advocates, such as Mark Serwotka of the PCS union, are perpetuating the myth so beloved of the more militant unions at least since the 70s, that the capitalist system can always buy off trouble even if that entails borrowing still more. This policy, buoyed by growing economic inequality during the last Labour government, lead to a rise in buy-to-let mortgages. 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. Apr 11, 2013 - By Philip Mader, Governance Across Borders editor and postdoctoral fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne, Germany Democratic capitalist societies have been “buying time” with money for the past four decades –… crisis theorists could scarcely imagine how long capitalist societies would be able to “buy time with money” and thereby continually escape the contradictions and tensions diagnosed by their theories of late capitalism. Jan 27, 2014 - If a group of time-travelling activists from the heyday of the New Left, members perhaps of the Black Panther Party, the Organization for Afro-American Unity, or Students for a Democratic Society, were transported to a political meeting of “Exploitation”: a feature of economic systems, including capitalism, in which unpaid labour is extracted from working people for the benefit of a relatively small number of exploiters, who comprise, in economic terms, a ruling class. May 29, 2011 - He believes the economic crisis is a sign that a move to 'post-capitalism' is urgent and essential, that an enduring return to growth is neither desirable nor possible. Dec 7, 2011 - Rather we exert influence by keeping options available when something has to be done at a time of crisis.