News Summary

• Streeck has been a sensible critic of modern political economy for a long time.
• The systematic disorders of capitalism covered by Streeck include stagnation, oligarchic wealth redistribution, plundering of the public domain, corruption, and global anarchy.
• The commodification of all life – food, family, work, community, recreation, business, entertainment, education, health, science, art – has led to alienation and anomie.
• Secular stagnation is inevitable as the previously empty world fills up with our products and our waste.