Book description
After years of ill health, capitalism is now in a critical condition. Growth has given way to stagnation; inequality is leading to instability; and confidence in the money economy has all but evaporated.
In How Will Capitalism End?, the acclaimed analyst of contemporary politics and economics Wolfgang Streeck argues that…
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1 author picked How Will Capitalism End? as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
It's been said that imagining the end of the world is easier than imagining the end of capitalism. Sadly, I think this is true. The ideology of capitalism, cultivated and promoted by marketing, media, governments, and many international institutions such as the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, makes it difficult to imagine alternatives to capitalism.
I learned much from Wolfgang Streeck, who reminds us of the multiple stresses and strains that, separately and together, could result in capitalism's demise. I found this both worrying and empowering.
If we don't think outside the capitalist box, we will unconsciously limit…
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