The crisis conundrum : how to reconcile economy and society /

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Imprint:[Cham, Switzerland] : Palgrave Macmillan, [2017].
©2017
Description:xxvii, 254 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11027736
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Other authors / contributors:Magatti, Mauro, editor.
ISBN:331947863X
9783319478630
9783319478647
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-254).
Summary: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.
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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.
Physical Description:xxvii, 254 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-254).
ISBN:331947863X
9783319478630
9783319478647