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.Students and scholars across a range of disciplines including sociology
economics development studies and European studies with find this book of interest.
