Table of Contents

1. Can Prosperity be Disentangled from Growth? 2. A High-Stakes Shift: Turning the Tide From GDP to New Prosperity Indicators Isabelle 3. Towards a Transcultural Definition of Prosperity. Insights from the Capability Approach 4. Consumerism and Positive Liberty 5. Prosperity in Work 6. Out of the laboratory into the field: the stakes riding on a paradigm change 7. Environment, Growth, and Prosperity: Possible Models of Integration 8. Prosperity and the Crisis of Politics 9. Collective Action and the Redefinition of Prosperity: On the Democratic Governance of the Transition 10. Conclusion: Who will redefine prosperity?

About the Author

Isabelle Cassiers is Professor at the Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium, and Research Associate at the Belgian National Fund for Scientific Research.