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Buying Time: The Delayed Crisis of Democratic Capitalism Wolfgang Streeck
Publisher: Verso Books

The final section, “Setting the Record Straight” by Bob Sulatycki, is another distorted account of what actually happened. Feb 6, 2012 - As more academic literature is likely to emerge on the global financial crisis, Democracy under stress is an interesting edited volume on the topic that at the same time is even more elucidative on the current state of political science. Jan 6, 2012 - Post-war democratic capitalism underwent its first crisis in the decade after the late 1960s, when inflation began to rise rapidly throughout the western world. Declining economic growth made it difficult to As with inflation, public debt made it possible to introduce into the distributional conflicts of the time resources that had not yet been produced, enabling governments to draw on future resources as well as those already to hand. Mar 2, 2014 - Introduction We reproduce below the fifth Socialist Party Members' Bulletin on “The Causes of Capitalist Crisis”, although in reality this document conta. It might Nobody wants to buy Spanish debt unless they receive a punitively high rate of interest. In the second section, the EC reproduce the Congress resolution on democratic centralism and the amendments for the “British Perspectives 2014” document, all put forward by Steve Dobbs. Jul 27, 2010 - Thus, if we hold it self-evident that democracy is a better form of regime than dictatorship precisely because it allows for the existence of a freely organised competitive political opposition that can contest power and times compete for it, . Jul 11, 2012 - In every capitalist boom there is an element of speculation, which is only revealed with the onset of crisis. Jun 29, 2012 - In the 1999 TIME interview, the Dalai Lama reflects on these nuanced differences and possibilities of a “genuine communist movement” in Tibet: Buddhists in this late stage of global capital might want to get up to speed on Marx. Mar 23, 2010 - Stop panicking: Capitalism repeatedly recovers from financial crises, by William Easterly: I am just beginning to dive into the awesome book by Carmen Reinhart and Ken Rogoff, This Time is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly. Jun 1, 2014 - European parliamentary election results highlighted both the long term disaffection with capitalism's official political institutions and the impact of the more immediate social crises across the continent, writes Ben Hillier in Red Flag. The only A crisis of overproduction can be delayed for a time by artificially expanding demand through consumer credit. When this outcome was avoided by the narrow victory of Samaras and the New Democracy, the bourgeois breathed an audible sigh of relief.