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Crouch, Colin (2011) Das befremdliche Überleben des Neoliberalismus - Postdemokratie II. Berlin: Suhrkamp. ISBN 9783518422748

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Abstract

Must register no later than Lehman Brothers bankruptcy in September 2008, it had appeared for a brief moment when the last hour of neoliberalism have beaten: When was the mantra of the market and privatization since the seventies on everyone's lips, which should now governments intervene to save systemically important banks. The competence of business leaders was a major question mark. Today, only three years later, the managers get huge bonuses again. To fund the bailout benefits will be reduced. The logic of the radical competition and the entrepreneurial self is still subject to our mentality.
How is this possible? This question is Colin Crouch in his great new essay. The author of the acclaimed bestseller Post Democracy traces the intellectual history of liberalism and stressed that the conflict vs. State. Market falls short: It's the giant transnational corporations, in which democracy and the market model suffer. But we can defend ourselves, as we reflect on our values ​​and our power as consumers. This is Crouch's optimistic vision of a social and democratic market economy.

Item Type: Book
Divisions: Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School > International Centre for Governance & Public Management
Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School
Publisher: Suhrkamp
Place of Publication: Berlin
ISBN: 9783518422748
Official Date: 2011
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2011Published
Number of Pages: 247
Status: Peer Reviewed
Publication Status: Published
Access rights to Published version: Restricted or Subscription Access
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For his book The strange survival of neo-liberalism gives the British political scientist and sociologist Colin Crouch , the political price the book "" the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung. The prize is awarded to "outstanding new publications that take on a critical analysis socio-political issues, they penetrate to the amount of time and make it understandable to a broad audience." (Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung)
The reason given by the independent jury as follows: "Impressive work out Crouch, why neo-liberalism, the financial and economic crisis could survive unscathed and sets out how the big transnational corporations to take on state action lasting influence and undermine democratic decision-making. Crouch was at hand in the face of these failures are no simple solutions, but it gives valuable knowledge about the power of big business and encourages dedicated contrast, holding by an active, multi-voiced civil society, to place the beneficiaries of the neo-liberal arrangements under pressure. "

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