Wolfgang Streeck: How Will Capitalism End? – Essays on a Failing System

In ‘How Will Capitalism End?’ the acclaimed analyst of contempo­rary politics and economics Wolfgang Streeck argues that the world is on the cusp of enormous change. The marriage between democracy and capitalism, ill-suited partners brought together in the shadow of the Second World War, is unravelling. The regulatory institutions that once restrained the financial sector’s excesses have collapsed, and there is no political agency capable of rolling back the liberalization of the markets.