About Wolfgang Streeck

Wolfgang Streeck is Managing Director of the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne.

Economic Growth after Financial Capitalism

Wolfgang Streeck

Everyone is telling us that growth is the only way out of the debt and fiscal crisis. But the one thing on which the so-called experts cannot agree is where this growth is supposed to come from. Growth rates in the affluent industrial nations have been in more or less steady decline since the 1970s; [...]