In 1945 Karl Polanyi outlined a vision of a peacetime global state system with a political economy in which small countries could be both sovereign and democratic. The present essay reviews developments between then and […]
IWM Lectures in Human Sciences, Institute for Human Sciences Vienna, June 05, 2019.
Capitalism is a one-size-fits-all economic ideology. But what happens when great swathes of the world reject the anarchy that capitalism really brings? Today, we stand at a crossroads, where more and more people refuse to […]
The setbacks for centrist parties in the European elections showed that the EU’s crisis is anything but over. Yet the Left’s lack of strategy and identity has hobbled its ability to provide an alternative. Read […]
Wolfgang Streeck on why the EU is a deplorable institution that we must leave. Read here
The Euro is unsuitable for many of its member nation. Still the agony – increasing inequality, high youth unemployment, emigration – continues. The result has been the demise of democracy, rise of the far right, […]
The opinion of an outsider – but what an outsider – on Brexit and the EU. Listen here
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 […]
Interview with Wolfgang Streeck, German political economist. We only wish that we could have cross-posted this. Read here
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 […]
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