Buying Time: The Delayed Crisis of Democratic

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

Mar 28, 2013 - It may be that these difficulties were based upon a falling rate of profit at the time, but even if this was just a crisis of overproduction, the authorities seemed determined to avoid a re-run of the 1930's, particularly at the height of the Cold War with the Soviet Union. Because of the crisis of overproduction (too much produced relative to what the market can afford to buy sustainably) capitalism can no longer even pretend to offer humanity improved living standards. Aug 9, 2013 - Advocates see it as a way to halt foreclosures, but foreclosures are working their way out of the system — so much so that first-time home buyers struggle to compete with cash-paying investment groups that are grabbing these properties. 6 days ago - Liberty and freedom are now reduced to fodder for inane commercials or empty slogans used to equate capitalism with democracy. May 28, 2014 - "We have all agreed," Summers said, "…that a remarkable job was done in containing the 2007-2008 crisis; that an event that (was) worse than the fall of 1929 and the winter of 1930, ended up in a way that bears very little resemblance . Their collapse was, according to the main theoretician of the SWP, the late Tony Cliff, merely a “sideways move”, the replacement of one capitalism by another! The Late P Brooks| 8.9.13 @ 11:21AM |#. €Newsom has no concept of how . 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. Sep 25, 2013 - This document is on the causes of capitalist crisis, replying to the ideas of Andrew Kliman; written by Peter Taaffe and Lynn Walsh and endorsed by the Executive. €It's the most abusive thing I've seen in a long time,” MRP is run by a prominent Democratic Party fund-raiser. Kliman no doubt shares this standpoint. May 19, 2014 - At the same time, some Department II capitalists are using previously hoarded money-capital to buy large amounts of fixed capital without putting an equivalent amount of value of commodities into circulation. May 30, 2014 - Of the small minority who have the time and patience to delve into multiple layers of argument and counter argument there will be a vanishingly small proportion who are persuaded to materially alter their position, based on what they have learned. In short, the partnership of democracy and capitalism established a circulatory flow of wealth through the economy – capitalism pushed wealth up the social pyramid and democracy pushed it back down. In wealth and power at the level of the deep structures of the global capitalist economy constitutes a powerful source of stagnationist pressures on the U.S. 4 days ago - What this means is that the US has been chosen by history to establish the hegemony of secular 'democratic capitalism' over the world.