"In recent decades, Mr. Streeck has described the complaints of populist movements with unequaled power. That is because he has a convincing theory of what has gone wrong in the complex gearworks of American-driven globalization, and he has been able to lay it out with clarity." --Christopher Caldwell, New York Times "Taking Back Control? helped me think of what a politics beyond liberalism could look like and expanded my sense of what is possible." --John-Baptiste Oduor, Granta (Featured in "Books of the Year 2024") "[E]ssential for any scholar seeking to make sense of a range of current trends: the ongoing retreat from 1990s-style globalization, the crisis of liberal democracy, and the rapid return of hot wars, cold wars, and trade wars to a world that just yesterday claimed to have overcome them all." --David Singh Grewal, Chronicle of Higher Education (Featured in "Best Scholarly Books of 2024") "In this wild ride of a must-read book, Wolfgang Streeck clarifies the depth of current crises in both capitalism and democracy, offers a detailed condemnation of the disastrous post-1989 unipolar neoliberal politics of enforced hyper-globalization, and suggests his own rules and structure for a more diverse, democratic, and peaceful state system we might begin to build, but that a long-tired politics and now mindless militarism still keep from public view." --Joel Rogers, co-author of American Society: How it Really Works "Taking Back Control? provides both a brilliant diagnosis of what has gone wrong with globalization and a persuasive prescription for renewing democratic governance. Wolfgang Streeck synthesizes arguments from politics, economics, and sociology in a book that deserves a place besides those of his 20th century intellectual forebears--Karl Polanyi and John Maynard Keynes.

" --Fred Block, author of Capitalism: The Future of an Illusion "To me, one crucial question emerges from this masterclass in contemporary political economy: does the current breakdown of a neoliberalism underpinned by US hegemony portend a regression to fascism and war as in the 1930s, or is there a more hopeful prospect? Drawing on Dani Rodrik''s critique of hyper-globalisation and the democratic alternative offered by the ''Keynes-Polanyi state'', Wolfgang Streeck argues compellingly for a de-globalised world polity founded on a humane economic nationalism. ''The nation state'', he claims, ''is the only institution capable of asserting the primacy of society over capitalism''. Agree or disagree, Streeck offers a radical and necessary challenge to conventional wisdom." --Robert Skidelsky, author of The Machine Age "Taking Back Control? combines a brilliant diagnosis of the political crisis of neoliberal globalization with a tough-minded case for "small-statism" as our best chance for a democratic-socialist resolution. Left internationalists may not like that conclusion but cannot ignore it. Streeck''s challenging new book raises the scale-of-democracy debate to a new level." --Nancy Fraser, author of Cannibal Capitalism Praise for Wolfgang Streeck and How Will Capitalism End? "Streeck writes devastatingly and cogently . How Will Capitalism End? provides not so much a .

forecast as a warning." --Martin Wolf, Financial Times "The most interesting person on the most urgent subject of our times." --Aditya Chakrabortty, Guardian "Less than a decade ago, Streeck sounded like a fringe Savonarola . declaring he was sure that the end of democratic capitalism was nigh. When an idea that once seemed preposterous starts to look prescient, we know that something fundamental has changed." --Jennifer Szalai, New York Times "Deconstructs this myth, exposing the deeply illiberal, irrational, antihumanist tendencies of contemporary capitalism." --Yanis Varoufakis.