Articles by Wolfgang Streeck

• Citizens as Customers
  • Wolfgang Streeck

  in NLR 76, July-August 2012, pp. 27-47
  Subjects: Social Theory , World Economy and Globalization
  

  Post-Fordist capitalism has transformed consumers’ expectations, offering limitless diversification of commodities. Wolfgang Streeck explores the implications for a public sphere which cannot hope to match the cornucopia of the market. The consumption of politics by the politics of consumption?

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• Markets and Peoples
  • Wolfgang Streeck

  in NLR 73, January-February 2012, pp. 63-71
  Subjects: Europe , World Economy and Globalization
  

  Today’s Euro-turmoil as amplification of the clash between popular and financial interests. Turns of the dialectic of democracy and capitalism, and possible escape routes from the dictatorship of capital markets.

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• The Crises of Democratic Capitalism
  • Wolfgang Streeck

  in NLR 71, September-October 2011, pp. 5-29
  Subjects: Economic Theory , Political Theory and Strategy
  

  The roots of today’s Great Recession are usually located in the financial excesses of the 1990s. Wolfgang Streeck traces a much longer arc, from 1945 onwards, of tensions between the logic of markets and the wishes of voters—culminating, he argues, in the international tempest of debt that now threatens to submerge democratic accountability altogether beneath the storm-waves of capital.

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  Also available in Spanish and Portuguese