Critical Encounters

Capitalism, Democracy, Ideas

Critical Encounters
Wolfgang Streeck
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Hardback
h210 x 140mm - 224pg
28 Oct 2020 UK
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9781788738743
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From the acclaimed author of How Will Capitalism End? comes an omnibus of long-form critical essays engaging with leading economists and thinkers. Critical Encounters draws on Wolfgang Streeck' s inimitable writing for the London Review of Books and New Left Review, among other publications. It opens with treatments of two contrasting historical eras-factory capitalism and financialization -and three of the world' s major economies: the United States, France and Germany. Delving into the world of ideas, Streeck discusses the work of Quinn Slobodian, Mark Blyth, Jurgen Habermas and Perry Anderson. Finally, he zooms out to compare his home discipline of sociology to natural history, giving a remarkable and non-deterministic reading of Charles Darwin. In the preface, Streeck reflects on the art (or craft) of book reviewing and the continuing merits of the book form. Critical Encounters also includes a series of ' Letters from Europe' , penned as the coronavirus descended upon the Continent.
Praise for How Will Capitalism End? "The most interesting person on the most urgent subject of our times" - Aditya Chakrabortty, Guardian"Streeck is a mixture of the analyst, the moralist and the prophet. As an analyst, he challenges the stability of democratic capitalism. As a moralist, he dislikes a society founded on greed. As a prophet, he declares that the wages of this sin are death. He also writes devastatingly and cogently on the euro as an assault on democratic politics" - Martin Wolf, Financial Times"Wolfgang Streeck' s powerful new book demonstrates that the maladies afflicting the world-from secular stagnation to rising violent instability-herald not just the decline of neoliberalism, but what may prove to be the terminal phase of global capitalism" - Paul Mason, author of Clear Bright Future
Wolfgang Streeck is Director Emeritus at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne. He is a member of the Berlin Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy. His books include Buying Time, How Will Capitalism End? and Critical Encounters.
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ISBN-13: 9781788738743
Published: 28 Oct 2020
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Verso Books
Publisher: Verso Books
Format: Hardback
Height: 210mm
Width: 140mm
Pages: 224

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