Capitalism and Its Legitimacy in Times of Crisis

Steffen Schneider is Senior Research Fellow at the Research Centre on Inequality and Social Policy (SOCIUM), University of Bremen, Germany.Henning Schmidtke is Senior Research Fellow at the Bavarian School of Public Policy, Technical University of Munich, Germany.Sebastian Haunss is Senior Research Fellow at the Research Centre on Inequality and Social Policy (SOCIUM), University of Bremen, Germany.Jennifer Gronau is Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre for Global Cooperation Research, Käte-Hamburger-Kolleg, Duisburg, Germany.

• Chapter 1. Introduction: A Legitimation Crisis of the Capitalist Market Economy?; Steffen Schneider and Henning Schmidtke.- Part I.- Chapter 2. The Legitimacy of the Capitalist Market Economy and Its Normative Foundations; Frank Nullmeier and Dominika Biegoń.- Chapter 3. Towards a Legitimation Crisis? Contours and Trajectories of National Discourses; Henning Schmidtke and Steffen Schneider.- Chapter 4. (De)Legitimating Discourse Networks: Smoke without Fire?; Sebastian Haunss.- Part II.- Chapter 5. Metaphorical Anticapitalism: Regulation, not Transformation; Jennifer Gronau.- Chapter 6. The Narrative Legitimation of the Capitalist Market Economy: A Success Story?; Dominika Biegoń.- Chapter 7. The Economy’s Need for Politics: Responsibility Discourses at the Dawn of the Financial Crisis; Falk Lenke and Henning Schmidtke.- Conclusion: Capitalism and Its Discontents; Jennifer Gronau and Sebastian Haunss.