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This is a personal project by @dellsystem. I built this to help me retain information from the books I'm reading.

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extra legem

For several years now the ECB has routinely been acting extra legem to fill the political vacuum created at the centre of the EMU by its founders, with the intention to build Euroland into the apolitical capitalist market economy of neoliberalism

this is a masterpiece of a sentence imo

—p.162 Heller, Schmitt and the Euro (151) by Wolfgang Streeck
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Hayekian

Today’s post-democratic, or better perhaps: a-democratic, Hayekian capitalism, after the victory, or almost-victory, of neoliberalism, may be regarded as a historically updated version of ordoliberalism

—p.155 Heller, Schmitt and the Euro (151) by Wolfgang Streeck
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ordoliberal

The competitive advantage of ordoliberalism after 1945 was that it could be sold as a lesson learned the hard way from the statist-dictatorial Nazi regime and its war economy: from the failure, political, moral and economic, of the Behemoth

—p.153 Heller, Schmitt and the Euro (151) by Wolfgang Streeck
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Baumol effect

O'Connor mounting pressure on state finances by public-sector trade unions claiming the same wages and benefits as workers in private industry and thereby exposing the state to the ‘cost disease’ of the service sector

referring to Marxist theorist James O'Connor. cites William J Baumol's "Macroeconomics of Unbalanced Growth" here

—p.115 The Rise of the European Consolidation State (113) by Wolfgang Streeck
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Keynesian

The felicitous term, ‘privatized Keynesianism’, was coined to describe what was, in effect, the replacement of public with private debt

citing Colin Crouch

—p.84 The Crises of Democratic Capitalism (73) by Wolfgang Streeck
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