Great Crisis of Capitalism - A Second Great Transformation?

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Great Crisis of Capitalism A Second Great
Transformation?
Lecture Series
Great Crisis of Capitalism –
A Second Great Transformation?
The transatlantic financial and economic crisis is regarded as the most severe crisis since
the Great Depression of the 1930s. Once more,
the future of capitalism appears to be highly
uncertain. Are we currently witnessing another transition period or “Great Transformation” as Karl Polanyi analyzed for the period after
World War I?
Although both the United States and the EU
have succeeded in stabilizing their economies
after the crash of 2008, a return of speculation
and bubbles, diverging economic development
in the Euro Zone, high levels of public debt, economic stagnation, the threat of deflation, and
a sharp increase in unemployment and social
misery in many countries are among the lasting concerns in the aftermath of the crisis.
These are not even the only challenges globalized capitalism is currently facing: Climate
change and the need of a wide range of restructuring and reforms in the energy system
in particular, the impact of the next generation
of digital technologies on industries, services,
and labor markets, demographic changes and
(forced) migrations, imperialist rivalry, failing
states, uneven developments and increasing
inequality, have led to an ongoing debate concerning the multiple crisis of capitalism.
The lecture series aims to promote a discussion
of general and specific aspects of contemporary
capitalist transformations. It is a joint initiative
of Berlin-based scholars from various academic
institutions working in diverse areas related to
(international) political economy and comparative capitalism.
Thursday, April 30, 2015, 4 p.m.
Further events are planned:
Macro-economic Growth Models and
Inequality Trends in the OECD
Globalized Capitalism and Unaccountable Power Elites
Professor Jonas Pontusson, Université de
Genève
Professor Janine Wedel, Ph.D., George Mason
University
Comment by:
Professor Anke Hassel, Hertie School of
Governance
Counter Elites and Capitalist
Globalization
Monday, June 1, 2015, 4 p.m.
Resilient Neoliberalism?
Policy Responses to the Great Recession
on Europe’s Periphery
Professor Dorothee Bohle, Central European
University
Comment by:
Professor Susanne Lütz, Free University Berlin
Professor Sigrid Quack, University DuisburgEssen

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