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Die Krise von 1929 und das Ende der Weimarer Republik
Get PDF"Über fast vier Jahrzehnte hinweg hat Jürgen Hoffmann eine Fülle von Publikationen zu ganz unterschiedlichen Bereichen vorgelegt. Allerdings gibt es auch einige wiederkehrende Themen, die ihn sein Leben lang beschäftigt haben, insbesondere die Situation der Gewerkschaften und die kapitalistischen Krisen. Um Krisen ging es bereits 1979, damals bezogen auf die Entwicklung der Bundesrepublik, in dem zusammen mit Elmar Altvater und Willi Semmler verfassten Band Vom Wirtschaftswunder zur Wirtschaftkrise. Später erweiterte Jürgen Hoffmann sowohl den zeitlichen Horizont wie die disziplinäre Perspektive. Aus einer Vorlesung zur Einführung in die Politische Geschichte, die er Anfang der 1990er Jahre an der damaligen Hochschule für Politik und Wirtschaft in Hamburg hielt, entstand sein opus magnum die Monographie Politisches Handeln und gesellschaftliche Struktur – Grundzüge deutscher Gesellschaftsgeschichte, die 1996 erstmals erschien. Im Zentrum seines Interesses stand, wie er es selbst im Vorwort formuliert, die „Darstellung sozialer Gegensätze und die Analyse des Verhältnisses von Politik und Ökonomie/Gesellschaft“. Der Bogen, den er dabei spannte, reicht vom Untergang des weströmischen Reiches und dem System feudaler Herrschaft über das Ancien Régime, das Kaiserreich und den Nationalsozialismus bis zum Ende der „alten Bundesrepublik“ nach dem „Beitritt“ der DDR...
To be or not to be a Keynesian – ist das die Frage? Kritik und Grenzen wirtschaftspolitischer Alternativen
Get PDFKeynes is back. Not only in the discourse of political economy but also in the debates around an "alternative economic policy". This article outlines Keynes\u27s approach to the political economy of capitalism and offers a critique in the tradition of Marx\u27s critique of classical political economy. It points out the limits and conditions of radical reforms and criticizes the illusions attached to the idea of a new Keynesian project
Phoenix und Asche: Indien und die Weltwirtschaftskrise
Get PDFAgainst the backdrop of the Global Economic Crisis India\u27s neoliberal elites initially argued, that its economy was safely decoupled from that of western countries, giving way to the fashionable \u27decoupling theory\u27: The evolving debate centered on whether or not, and later on how, India would be affected by the global crisis, but failed to recognize that any analysis attempting to grasp the current development fully, must not only connect the crisis to the economic development preceding it but also consider effects beyond the economy\u27s internationalized sectors. We argue that while the economic crisis does affect India\u27s internationalized economic segments adversely, particularly via the channels of foreign trade, international capital flows and availability of credit, the majority of the Indian population suffers from social crises, rooted in the country\u27s economic strategy and expressed through agricultural distress combined with precarious employment conditions, which have persisted for much longer than the current global crisis. The majority of the population which suffered from \u27Incredible India\u27s\u27 \u27predatory growth\u27 will have to carry the burden of its economic recovery and continued pursuit of the status of a major economic power
Renaissance der Atomkraft? Vermutlich nicht!
No full textThe international nuclear lobby is constantly talking about a nuclear renaissance. But nuclear power is rather in the dusk than in the dawn. Missing industrial capacities, skyrocketing costs for raw materials and new nuclear power plants, the dramatic skilled worker/manager shortage and a sceptical financial sector are the main problems of nuclear industry. And nuclear technology as saviour against global warming is no good either
Rätedemokratie oder das Ende der Politik
No full textSimilar to the capitalist economy liberal democracy is subjected cyclical crises, In political theory and in the debate of the Left there is a search for alternatives to depolitisation, passiveness or apathy, Criticizing Hannah Arendts republicanism, it is proposed to appropriate arguments of Marx\u27 analysis of the Paris Commune and of the debates during the German revolution in 1918/19, Concepts of workers council democracy are discussed, and it is argued that this tradition had developed important insights in the problems of socialist transformation
Eine Krise des Übergangs: Machtverschiebungen in der Weltwirtschaft
Get PDFAccording to common wisdom, the great depression of 2008/2009 is rooted in a financial crisis that spread from the US to most other parts of the world. This interpretation is challenged. Using theoretical concepts of David Harvey and Giovanni Arrighi, the current crisis is analyzed as a switching crisis from one global spatial fix of capital accumulation to another. First, the economic power shifts from the West to semi-peripheral states in East Asia as well as other world regions are identified as one major reason for the development of structural imbalances in world economy. It is analyzed how the structural imbalances – especially between China and the US – tended to deepen the US housing bubble. After the bubble had bursted, the crisis hit different world regions in a different manner. China and other emerging nations in East Asia as well as in South America were able to withstand the crisis due to large stimulus packages, whereas the EU, US and Japan have been deeply affected. The transition in global political economy will be even speeded up by the crisis. Finally, different scenarios of a new map of global power are discussed
Prima Klima mit dem Markt? Der Handel mit dem Recht, die Luft zu verschmutzen
No full textClimate change is a profound crisis of society and of the capitalist mode of production. Nevertheless, hegemonic forms of the regulation of the crisis emerge which correspond to neoliberal political concepts. Primarily economic and \u27flexible\u27 instruments, such as Emission Trading (ET), the Clean Development Mechanism (COM) and Joint Implementation ar) are to counteract the trend. In climate policy these mechanisms are the result of diplomatic negotiations, technicalcontrol optimism and a political-economic strategy which follows a \u27win-win\u27 logic. The mechanisms are constructed in a \u27flexible\u27 form, so that within the framework of a skilful C02 bookkeeping balance-sheet the reductions appear to take place, when in absolute terms no reduction at all has in fact occurred
Gegenstrategien als (neue) Systemressource des Kapitalismus? Zur Problematisierung einer populären Zeitdiagnose
Get PDFCriticism, resistence and subversion are discussed to have developed from counter strategies to resources of capitalism recently. This diagnosis is highly popular, finding its theoretical and conceptional roots in Foucauldian Governmentality Studies, in labour-market related approaches to subjectivation in post-fordism as well as in Boltanski/Chiapello “The new spirit of capitalism”. This article shows problematic aspects of this diagnosis, without denying its inspiring facets. It is based on the assumption that the over-hasty and over-generalized abandonment of the subversive potentials of counter strategies prevents the development of a well-founded and context-related theory of resistance. As a conclusion central steps towards a sociology of resistence are delineated
