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CRITICAL ENCOUNTERS - WOLFGANG STREECK GEBUNDEN

From the acclaimed author of How Will Capitalism End? comes an omnibus of critical engagements
with leading economists and thinkers. Critical Encounters draws on Wolfgang Streeck's
inimitable writing for the London Review of Books and New Left Review  among other outlets  and
includes pieces originally published in the German press  translated into English for the first
time. It opens with a survey of three of the world's major economies - the US  France  Germany
- and two contrasting historical eras  factory capitalism and financialization. A middle
section considers the hollowing out of Western democracies  with a review of Yanis Varoufakis's
memoirs of the Eurozone crisis. Streeck then delves into the world of ideas  discussing Perry
Anderson's The H-Word and Jurgen Habermas's The Lure of Technocracy. Finally he zooms out to
compare his home discipline of sociology against natural history  giving a remarkable and
non-deterministic reading of Charles Darwin. In the Introduction  Streeck reflects on the art
(or craft) of book reviewing and the continuing merits of the book form. The book also includes
a coda on Brexit and the future of Europe.

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