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dc.contributor.authorSTREECK, Wolfgang
dc.date.accessioned2011-07-14T09:41:38Z
dc.date.available2011-07-14T09:41:38Z
dc.date.issued2011
dc.identifier.issn1830-7736
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1814/18134
dc.descriptionThe lecture was delivered on 20 April 2011.en
dc.description.abstractThe “financial crisis” and its sequel, the current sovereign debt crisis, appear to be the latest permutations of an old conflict between capitalism and democracy that forcefully reasserted itself after the end of the postwar growth period. Present calamities were preceded by high inflation in the late 1960s and 1970s, rising public deficits in the 1980s, and growing private indebtedness in the 1990s and 2000s. In each case, governments were faced with popular demands for prosperity and security that were incompatible with an allocation of life chances by free markets alone. Rather than the result of faulty economic management, inflation, deficits and financial under-regulation must be understood as temporary stopgaps to satisfy democratic-political claims for “social justice” alongside economic capitalist requirements of profitability and distribution by marginal productivity. The risks associated with the inherent contradictions of democratic capitalism may have increased in recent years, with potentially disruptive consequences for the social integration of democratic polities as well as for the system integration of advanced market economies.en
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dc.relation.ispartofseriesEUI MWP LSen
dc.relation.ispartofseries2011/04en
dc.relation.hasversionhttp://hdl.handle.net/1814/44344
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dc.subjectCapitalismen
dc.subjectdemocracyen
dc.subjectpolitical economyen
dc.subjectfiscal crisisen
dc.subjectfinancial crisisen
dc.titleThe Crisis in Context: Democratic capitalism and its contradictionsen
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