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The crisis conundrum

how to reconcile economy and society

edited byMauro Magatti

Abstract

This collection addresses the path to a new prosperity after the Great Recession. The contributors ask that if the 2008 crisis proved the unsustainability of the neoliberal development model, what does well-being mean today in advanced western democracies? What kind of production and consumption will be a feature of the coming decades? What are the financial, economic, institutional and social innovations needed to reconcile economy and society after decades of disembedding? The Crisis Conundrum offers an interdisciplinary interpretation of the crisis as an opportunity to reform capitalism and consumption societies, structurally as well as culturally.

Details | Table of Contents

From one precariousness to another

the ideological role of financial calculation in the outbreak and perpetuation of the crisis—preliminary considerations based on chapter 12 of the general theory

Massimo Amato

pp.93-109

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47864-7_4
Out of the great recession

the conditions for prosperity beyond individualism and consumerism

Chiara Giaccardi Monica Martinelli Cesare Silla

pp.165-189

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47864-7_8
A major reason for the present crisis

the belief that the economy represents the foundation of human society

Francois Flahault

pp.191-205

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47864-7_9

Publication details

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Place: Basingstoke

Year: 2017

Pages: 254

ISBN (hardback): 978-3-319-47863-0

ISBN (digital): 978-3-319-47864-7

Full citation:

Magatti Mauro (2017) The crisis conundrum: how to reconcile economy and society. Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.