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the role of trade unions in monetary policy

In subsequent years governments all over the Western world faced the question of how to make trade unions moderate their members’ wage demands without having to rescind the Keynesian promise of full employment. In countries where the institutional structure of the collective-bargaining system was n…

—p.78 How Will Capitalism End? Essays on a Failing System The Crises of Democratic Capitalism (73) by Wolfgang Streeck
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forcing capitalist elites to choose between the two

[...] What may be surfacing here is the fundamental tension described by Marx between, on the one hand, the increasingly social nature of production in an advanced economy and society, and private ownership of the means of production on the other. As productivity growth requires more public provisi…

—p.69 How Will Capitalism End? (47) by Wolfgang Streeck
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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? (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