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.

Mauro Magatti is Professor of Sociology at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Italy and director of their Centre for the Anthropology of Religion and Cultural Change. His main academic interests are focused on the relationship between economy and society, the role of civic society and globalization and its cultural and economic implications.