Has Capitalism Seen Its Day?
Channel: Havens Wright Center for Social Justice
Date: 2022-09-25

A lecture by Wolfgang Streeck proposing a crisis theory for contemporary capitalism that asserts this social configuration is on its way out and will involve a long period of indecision, anomie, and disorder. 

This event was co-sponsored by Global Studies and COWS at UW-Madison.

Wolfgang Streeck is Director at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne, Germany, and Theodor Heuss professor at the New School for Social Research, New York. From 1988 to 1995 he was Professor of Sociology and Industrial Relations at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His latest publications include: Gekaufte Zeit. Die vertagte Krise des demokratischen Kapitalismus, Politics in the Age of Austerity, and Re-Forming Capitalism: Institutional Change in the German Political Economy.