Sociological study of capitalism's crisis and decay

Review essay of How will Capitalism End? Essays on a Failing System by Wolfgang Streeck

Rather than number-crunching gobbledygook that conceals a lot of questionable assumptions, Streeck attempts to examine capitalism as a social phenomenon, as part of a society we are constructing. Too complex to quantify, it is a return to the roots of classical economics, which was as much a branch of moral philosophy as it was an analysis of the earlie…