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Kees van der Pijl: Democratic Capitalism in the Last Stages? Capital as Agency in Wolfgang Streeck’s Analysis of the Crisis
Wolfgang Streeck’s Gekaufte Zeit/ Buying Time contains a compelling analysis that points to the origins of the current crisis in the wave of strikes of 1968-69. It caused the capitalist class to try and wrest free from the post-war social (-democratic) contract forced on it by labour. More
Zakhar Popovych: Answers on the Workshop Questions
As Olexandr Kravchuk pointed Ukrainian oligarchic capitalism was not that much better before the 2008-2009 crises. Ukrainian economy was programmed for destruction More
Joachim Spangenberg: Answers to the Workshop Questions
There have been several distinct phases. (1.1) In the beginning, there was general irritation how something so unpredicted could happen; even hard core economists were full of doubt. More
Alexander Kravchuk: Stocktaking Ukrainian Development. Scenarios of Ukrainian Development
To answer for the first question «what has changed for us after the crisis of 2007-2008» we need for a briefly characterizing Ukraine development until 2008. After predatory privatization of state property, which was estimated at the time of the collapse of the Soviet Ukraine in the hundreds of billions US dollars, More
Etienne Balibar: Borderland Europe and the Challenge of Migration
We tend to think that the external limits of the European Union define the ‘real’ borders of Europe, which is a mistake. Confronted with the violent obscene images that have been reaching us ever since the influx of refugees More
Anej Korsika: Answers on the Workshop Questions
Short answer would be: everything has changed. Though dramatic changes that have occurred on almost all areas of social life can easily support such a bold claim, we still need to be weary of the very nature of such change. More
Judith Dellheim: (Again) On Capitalist Oligarchies
We can find such terms like „groups of elites“ or „ruling capital fractions“ in some posts on this blog. And reviewing the blogs for/of the previous EUexperts’ discussions, two remarks seem to be helpful: 1. the time, when the concept More
Leonidas Vatikiotis: Answers on the Workshop Questions
In a few words, everything has changed. Given that in Greece, the GDP has decreased more than 26% (something that has never happened again during peace period) and is going to decrease even more during 2016, the crisis has been proven to be the most significant turning point in the postwar period. More
Leo Šešerko: On the Debate about Scenarios of EU Development
When we had the first EUexperts’ discussion in 2011, Leo Šešerko from Ljubljana started the debate about scenarios of EU development. We wanted to reload his text to help asking productive questions and understanding processes in reality and thinking about. Please click here.