The New Enlightenment

The series deals with the crisis of legitimacy facing capitalism today and with potential solutions for reimagining and revitalizing capitalism.

This Element provides an overview of the Reinventing Capitalism series, explains the background of its development and contains eight sections that deal with various facets of the subject from the perspectives of a group of top-notch authors.The Reinventing Capitalism series seeks to feature explorations about the crisis of legitimacy facing capitalism today, including the increasing income and wealth gap, the decline of the middle class, threats to employment due to globalization and digitalization, undermined trust in institutions, discrimination against minorities, global poverty and pollution. The series is intended to be a collection of authoritative literature reviews of foundational topics on renewing capitalism. Being grounded in a business and management perspective, the series incorporates insights from multiple disciplines that promise to substantiate the causes of the current crisis and potential solutions what needs to be done. This Element provides an overview of the series, explains the background of its development and contains eight sections that deal with various facets of the subject from the perspectives of a group of top-notch authors.