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The Crisis of Contemporary Capitalism: Oliver Nachtwey in Conversation

Goethe-Institut New York 30 Irving Place, New York City

Join German sociologist Oliver Nachtwey and Ajay Singh Chaudhary for a conversation on how neoliberalism is causing a social crisis in Germany and the rest of Europe. Upward social mobility represented a core promise of life under the “old” West German welfare state, in which millions of skilled workers upgraded their Volkswagens to Audis, bought their first homes, and sent their children…