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The post‐capitalist interregnum: The old system is dying, but a new social order cannot yet be born
Author(s) -
Streeck Wolfgang
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
juncture
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.55
H-Index - 8
eISSN - 2050-5876
pISSN - 2050-5868
DOI - 10.1111/newe.906
Subject(s) - interregnum , capitalism , state (computer science) , indeterminacy (philosophy) , order (exchange) , social system , social order , economic history , contradiction , jacobin , political economy , political science , economy , sociology , economics , social science , law , philosophy , politics , epistemology , algorithm , finance , computer science , french revolution
A ‘post‐capitalist interregnum’ is dawning, argues Wolfgang Streeck – a prolonged period of social entropy, radical uncertainty and indeterminacy, in which society is essentially ungovernable and no new world order waits in the wings. Tracing the four‐stage crisis sequence of neoliberal capitalism up to today's disintegrating state system, he finds it exemplified in borderless Europe – and specifically in Britain's fateful referenda.

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