EU politics
Wolfgang Streeck – Taking Back Contol: Brexit and the EU
The opinion of an outsider – but what an outsider – on Brexit and the EU. Listen here
Wolfgang Streeck
EU politics
Wolfgang Streeck – The European Union is a liberal empire, and it is about to fall
The European Union is a liberal empire, and it is about to fall, warns Wolfgang Streeck (Max Planck Institut). The position of imperial hegemon belongs to Germany, which is finding it increasingly difficult to fulfil […]
Economics
Wolfgang Streeck: ‘Marx’s writing more relevant today than ever’
Interview with Wolfgang Streeck, German political economist. We only wish that we could have cross-posted this. Read here
Economics
Wolfgang Streeck – Germany: A renewed left as the imperative of political reason
Wolfgang Streeck is without doubt the foremost analyst of German politics and society. Germany´s post war political world is crumbling – and rather quickly. Streeck is one of the few who has recognised this, and […]
Economics
Wolfgang Streeck: Germany’s European Empire
In today’s Germany, Wolfgang Streeck argues, politicians laud “Europe” — while quietly using EU structures to advance German national interests. Read here
EU politics
Wolfgang Streeck – Europe under Merkel IV: Balance of Impotence
An insightful, although long, analysis concerning where EU politics, especially with regard to its German/French axis, is headed. Read here
Economics
Wolfgang Streeck – Driving Forces: Social Theory as a Theory of History
A typically interesting lecture by Wolfgang Streeck. Begins at 8:55
Economics
Wolfgang Streeck – The Future of Capitalism
Podcast about the trajectory of capitalism and democracy, Center for Urban Research and Austerity, January 15, 2018 A talk with Wolfgang Streeck, Professor emeritus of sociology. From 1995 to 2014 he was Director at the Max Planck […]
Austerity
Farewell, neoliberalism: An interview with Wolfgang Streeck
“Act local, think global. The only ones that can act globally are the CIA and Goldman Sachs, and only as long as there is no effective local resistance. In the real world, there is no […]