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understanding capitalism within sociology

To study contemporary capitalism, I argue, sociology must go back before the disciplinary division of labour with economics negotiated on its behalf by its twentieth century founding figure, Talcott Parsons. For this it will be helpful to rediscover the sociology in classical economists from Smith …

—p.201 How Will Capitalism End? Essays on a Failing System How to Study Contemporary Capitalism? (201) by Wolfgang Streeck
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simultaneously support and undermine

[...] Capitalism and democracy thus seem to simultaneously support and undermine one another: while an economic equilibrium is necessary for a democratic society to reap the collective benefits of private capital accumulation, it is put at risk by the very same policies that are needed to make pr…

—p.192 Comment on Wolfgang Merkel, ‘Is Capitalism Compatible with Democracy?’ (185) by Wolfgang Streeck
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capitalism and democracy

Capitalism and democracy, in short, are not two modules, like an engine and a steering system, to be combined or not depending on their technical compatibility. They are both, individually as well as in their respective combination, the outcome of specific configurations of classes and class intere…

—p.190 Comment on Wolfgang Merkel, ‘Is Capitalism Compatible with Democracy?’ (185) by Wolfgang Streeck
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the fundamental insight of political economy archive/dissertation

[...] Habermas’s partial incorporation of systems theory – the recognition of a technocratic claim to dominance over certain sectors of society, analogous to relativity theory conceding a limited applicability to classical mechanics – depoliticizes the economic, narrowing it down to a unidimensiona…

—p.169 Why the Euro Divides Europe (165) by Wolfgang Streeck
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the most independent central bank in the world

[...] While other central banks are embedded in a state with coextensive jurisdiction and have to face a government and a public at the same territorial and political level, the currency and the common market the ECB runs are stateless (as is, essentially, the legal system governed by the ECJ). Thi…

—p.161 Heller, Schmitt and the Euro (151) by Wolfgang Streeck