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(2017) The crisis conundrum, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.

Beyond the consumerist-financial exchange

the sustainable-contributory exchange

Mauro Magatti , Laura Gherardi

pp. 3-39

Capitalism has featured a different exchange of material and symbolic resources between society, economy and politics at each stage of its development. After analysing neoliberal exchange (1989–2008), considered as financial-consumerist exchange with its heavy social and economic consequences, we focus on the possible new exchange arising after the 2008 crisis. This is a 'sustainable-contributory exchange": economy and politics now enable resources sustainability—for instance, towards new business models—and citizens' contributions towards institutional innovation. Experiments in this sort of exchange are taking place in different contexts: if spread, it can drive a new prosperity in the Western economy in terms of both economic and social plans.

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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-47864-7_1

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Magatti, M. , Gherardi, L. (2017)., Beyond the consumerist-financial exchange: the sustainable-contributory exchange, in M. Magatti (ed.), The crisis conundrum, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 3-39.

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