As in the wake of a long dream, the crisis that began in 2008 has faced us with a situation of uncertainty, which seems to have become permanent. Although politicians and experts continue their litany of the return to normalcy, that world we knew of abundant and cheap resources, of sustained and regular growth, remains behind us. Economic science and its naturalized ideas of equilibrium and growth are no longer able to account for an economy subject to systematic financial looting and a fixed cost structure inherited from the times of cheap energy. Within the tradition of institutional economics, which can be traced to Thorstein Veblen, JK Galbraith presents the great challenge of our time: to get rid of the crazy ideas of the dominant economy to successfully face the reforms required to initiate a period of growth Slow, but socially balanced.