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the long-term trend towards greater economic inequality archive/so478

[...] there is no indication that the long-term trend towards greater economic inequality will be broken any time soon, or indeed ever. Inequality depresses growth, for Keynesian and other reasons. But the easy money currently provided by central banks to restore growth – easy for capital but not, …

—p.68 How Will Capitalism End? Essays on a Failing System How Will Capitalism End? (47) by Wolfgang Streeck
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paying more than ever for marketing archive/dissertation archive/mc433

[...] consumption in mature capitalist societies has long become dissociated from material need. The lion’s share of consumption expenditure today – and a rapidly growing one – is spent not on the use value of goods, but on their symbolic value, their aura or halo. This is why industry practitioner…

—p.65 How Will Capitalism End? (47) by Wolfgang Streeck
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capitalism has become its own worst enemy

[...] Geoffrey Hodgson has argued that capitalism can survive only as long as it is not completely capitalist – as it has not yet rid itself, or the society in which it resides, of ‘necessary impurities’. Seen this way, capitalism’s defeat of its opposition may actually have been a Pyrrhic victory,…

—p.61 How Will Capitalism End? (47) by Wolfgang Streeck
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no force is on hand

The image I have of the end of capitalism – an end that I believe is already under way – is one of a social system in chronic disrepair, for reasons of its own and regardless of the absence of a viable alternative. While we cannot know when and how exactly capitalism will disappear and what will su…

—p.58 How Will Capitalism End? (47) by Wolfgang Streeck
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taxpayers vs buyers of government bonds archive/so478

[...] What the deterioration of public finances was related to was declining overall levels of taxation (Figure 1.5) and the increasingly regressive character of tax systems, as a result of ‘reforms’ of top income and corporate tax rates (Figure 1.6). Moreover, by replacing tax revenue with debt, g…

—p.53 How Will Capitalism End? (47) by Wolfgang Streeck