Un libro sul destino della democrazia nella società attuale: non una situazione assolutamente disperata (ma poco ci manca), per la quale Crouch indica alcuni rimedi su cui meriterà riflettere. Eccezionalmente illuminante e suggestivo. Gianni Vattimo Una lettura attenta dellevoluzione del mondo politico, economico e sociale. Un ricostituente per esangui discussioni politiciste. Luigi La Spina, La StampaCrouch entra con precisione nel cuore dei più scottanti problemi della politica odierna. ...

La crisi devastante delle economie occidentali avrebbe dovuto portare con sé la dottrina economica egemone del neoliberismo. Non è stato così. Perché? La risposta di Crouch, densa e polemica, è che le teorie neoliberiste sono funzionali al potere di un'entità che pesa sempre più: l'impresa gigante. I partiti di sinistra e i movimenti della società civile dovrebbero fare argine contro lo strapotere delle megaimprese. L'opera non è affatto semplice, ma la diagnosi esatta di Crouch può essere...

In Post-Democracy (Polity, 2004) Colin Crouch argued that behind the façade of strong institutions, democracy in many advanced societies was being hollowed out, its big events becoming empty rituals as power passed increasingly to circles of wealthy business elites and an ever-more isolated political class.Crouch’s provocative argument has in many ways been vindicated by recent events, but these have also highlighted some weaknesses of the original thesis and shown that th...

La globalizzazione ha messo in crisi l'identità – oltre che la stabilità economica – di milioni di persone. È un problema che va affrontato seriamente ma la cui soluzione non può essere il nazionalismo.Un tempo, quando si parlava di globalizzazione, ci si riferiva a un fenomeno unicamente economico. Non è più così. Oggi la globalizzazione – che ha causato la graduale cancellazione di interi settori industriali e, di conseguenza, la dispersione di comunità e modi di vivere a essi le...

Colin Crouch argues that at the base of all political conflicts are struggles over which types of people should be included in and which excluded from various rights, including the right to exist at all within a particular society. This is more fundamental than any conflict between left and right or between classes, and it gives rise to tropes of inclusionary and exclusionary rhetoric that can be transferred across issues – from material inequality to ethnicity, gender and sexual orientati...

In principle the advanced, market-driven world in which we now live is fuelled by knowledge, information and transparency, but in practice the processes that produce this world systematically corrupt and denigrate knowledge: this is the powerful and provocative argument advanced by Colin Crouch in his latest exploration of societies on the road to post-democracy.Crouch shows that executives in profit-maximizing corporations have incentives to ignore or distort knowledge, especially...

In seinem Buch Jenseits des Neoliberalismus rechnete Colin Crouch unlängst mit der neoliberalen Wirtschaftspolitik ab und plädierte für mehr soziale Gerechtigkeit. In Markt und Moral spricht er sich nun klar für eine freie Marktwirtschaft aus, die durch staatliche und zivilgesellschaftliche Maßnahmen reguliert wird.Im Gespräch mit Peter Engelmann liefert Crouch eine Diagnose der gegenwärtigen politischen und sozioökonomischen Situation. Crouch zeigt auf, warum die Wahlfreiheit als Grundbed...

Leading chess author Colin Crouch selects and explains over 30 sensational games, all from the new millennium. By studying battles between the world’s best players, Crouch examines in detail all the key areas of modern chess. Powerful attacking and resourceful defending, bloodthirsty tactical battles, profound positional mastery, deep opening preparation and superb endgame play are all in evidence here, while Crouch also explores the ever-increasing role of computers and the way human imag...

Im Widerstand gegen den Neoliberalismus muss das soziale Denken und damit die Sozialdemokratie aus ihrer defensiven Haltung aufgerüttelt und durchsetzungsfähiger gemacht werden. Der Neoliberalismus hat unsere Gesellschaft bereits nachhaltig geprägt, die Veränderungen der vergangenen Jahrzehnte sind nicht mehr rückgängig zu machen. Aus diesem Grund ist für Colin Crouch ein gestalterischer Eingriff nur systemimmanent denkbar: Die Sozialdemokratie muss den Schwerpunkt ihrer Aktivität auf die ...

Colin Crouch studies his favorite attacking players, and highlights all the important themes of one of the most crucial elements of the game.

The financial crisis seemed to present a fundamental challenge to neo liberalism, the body of ideas that have constituted the political orthodoxy of most advanced economies in recent decades. Colin Crouch argues in this book that it will shrug off this challenge. The reason is that while neo liberalism seems to be about free markets, in practice it is concerned with the dominance over public life of the giant corporation. This has been intensified, not checked, by the recent financial cris...

Capitalism is the only complex system known to us that can provide an efficient and innovative economy, but the financial crisis has brought out the pernicious side of capitalism and shown that it remains dependent on the state to rescue it from its own deficiencies. Can capitalism be reshaped so that it is fit for society, or must we acquiesce to the neoliberal view that society will be at its best when markets are given free rein in all areas of life?The aim of this book is to sh...