Ebook: Buying Time: the Delayed Crisis of Democratic Capitalism

Halftitle Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface to the Second Edition; Introduction: Crisis Theory: Then and Now; Chapter One: From Legitimation Crisis to Fiscal Crisis; A new type of crisis; Two surprises for crisis theory; The other legitimation crisis and the end of the postwar peace; The long turn: from postwar capitalism to neoliberalism; Buying time; Chapter Two: Neoliberal Reform: From Tax State to Debt State; Financial crisis: a failure of democracy?; Capitalism and democracy in the neoliberal revolution; Excursus: capitalism and democracy; Starving the beast!