Wolfgang Streeck

Streeck was born "just outside Münster", the son of refugees – ethnic Germans from eastern Europe displaced at the end of the Second World War.

[2][3] Besides numerous articles published in various European journals, he has authored scores of books, some of them available in translations.

In 2014, Streeck wrote an article in the New Left Review where he postulates how capitalism might come to an end, discussing several factors that make this likely to happen.

Streeck posits that because contemporary capitalism is beset by five disorders—declining growth, oligarchy, starvation of the public sphere, corruption and international anarchy—for which at present no political agency exists to confront them, it will continue to regress and atrophy until at some point it might end.

[5][6] Streeck and his wife live in part of the farmyard of a castle in Brühl, a small town close to Cologne.