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The Problematic Role of Materialistic Values in the Pursuit of Sustainable...
Strong materialistic values help to maintain consumer capitalism, but they can have negative consequences for individual well-being, for social equity and for environmental sustainability. In this...
View ArticleWhy UK’s ‘treasured free-market economy’ will not achieve net zero
Whatever the UK government says it’s doing—and not doing—one thing is clear, Tim Jackson writes, the “treasured free-market economy” is never going to compensate for our failure to insulate people’s...
View ArticleWhat happens when investment firms take over UK care homes | Report and...
Through a series of in-depth interviews with care workers Christine Corlet Walker et al explore the impact of investment firms on working conditions and quality of care in UK care homes. Combined with...
View ArticleVideo: 50th Anniversary of The Limits to Growth—What has the EU learned and...
Roundtable event with Dennis Meadows, Robert Costanza, Kate Raworth, and Tim Jackson; contributing to the theme of post-growth thinking within the EU institutions and across EU Member States.
View ArticleMum, Will the Planet Die Before I Do? | Climate parenting podcast series with...
In an exciting new partnership with Corner Shop Media Productions, Parents for Future UK and Zero Carbon Guildford, CUSP is co-sponsoring a new weekly podcast series hosted by seasoned journalists...
View ArticleMoving beyond GDP is key to tackling a world in crisis | By Paul Allin, Diane...
Gross domestic product remains the predominant measure of progress across the world, it's time to change that, write Paul Allin, Diane Coyle and Tim Jackson. Amid the global threats posed by climate...
View ArticleEconomic Growth—can we ever have enough? | BBC Radio 4 Analysis
As the twin storms of economic turmoil and worsening climate change grip the the world, BBC Radio 4 Analysis examines the future of economic growth. Does it offer a route out of economic malaise, or...
View ArticleIs it time to rethink endless economic growth?—Guardian Science Weekly Podcast
In the Cop27 special, Ian Sample speaks to Tim Jackson about the myth of eternal growth, other ways to think about progress and prosperity, and what an economic system in balance with our planetary...
View ArticleSunak’s growth fetish is a problem: he’s heading for the same budget trap as...
The siren call of climate-burning expansion bewitches British politics. More of the same will emerge in the autumn statement, Tim Jackson writes. To all intents and purposes, we’re already living in a...
View Article2022 Eric Zencey Prize in Ecological Economics for Tim Jackson’s book Post...
Tim Jackson has been awarded the 2022 Eric Zencey Prize in Ecological Economics for his book Post Growth: Life after Capitalism. The prize celebrates outstanding writing on the environmental limits of...
View ArticleDegrowth can work—here’s how science can help | Nature Article
Wealthy countries can create prosperity while using less materials and energy if they abandon economic growth as an objective. This Nature comment piece together with Jason Hickel, Giorgos Kallis,...
View ArticleBBC Radio 4 Rethink Series | Green economy, money and prosperity
What may switching to a green economy mean for the way we live and work and is it compatible with economic growth? Together with his invited guests and co-hosts, Amol Rajan is exploring key questions...
View ArticleWithout health there is no wealth. Why do so few governments understand...
Politicians are wrong to believe that we can only afford decent care in good economic times, Tim Jackson writes. Without health there is no wealth. Without care there is no health. Care is investment....
View ArticleImagining life after capitalism | Radio NZ with Kim Hill
Tim Jackson was invited onto the Radio NZ Saturday Morning programme with Kim Hill to discus post-growth economics, staggering inequalities legitimated by the trickle-down ideology, and the motivation...
View ArticleTowards a Model of Baumol’s Cost Disease in a Postgrowth Economy—developments...
This working paper describes an extension of the stock-flow consistent FALSTAFF model to test the existence of a monetary growth imperative. The extension is designed to simulate the phenomenon known...
View ArticlePathways towards Sustainable Prosperity in the EU | Second Post-Growth...
On 15-17 May 2023, scientists, politicians, policymakers and civil society organisations are gathering in Brussels for the second Post-Growth Conference for Europe. The event is a cross-party...
View ArticlePost Growth and the North-South Divide: a post-Keynesian stock-flow...
This working paper describes a two-region post-Keynesian stock-flow consistent macroeconomic model set out to analyse macroeconomic implications of a postgrowth transition in advanced countries on the...
View ArticleWhose ‘flow’ is it anyway? The demographic correlates of ‘flow proneness’
This quantitative study of 4000 adults in the UK found that demographic factors only play a minimal role in explaining the likelihood of people being able to experience flow, suggesting that the...
View ArticleEchoes of immortality: Art and the Wellbeing Economy
Sustainability is the art of living well within the ecological limits of a finite planet. Art is more than an instrument in this project. It’s the very nature of it.A talk delivered by Tim Jackson for...
View ArticleThe invisible heart: postgrowth economy as care | EU Beyond Growth...
Care is an anathema to capitalism. Its virtues are capitalism’s vices. Its employment-rich foundation for wellbeing is capitalism’s ‘productivity crisis’. Yet, without care we are nothing, our progress...
View ArticleImagining a postgrowth world | Speech at the EU Beyond Growth Conference, 17...
Growth is unsustainable. But the world beyond growth is frightening. We have built an economy that is dependent on growth. We must learn anew how society works, when the economy is not growing. And we...
View ArticleFull Circle Brussels: Imagining a postgrowth economy
To provide prosperity for all while respecting planetary boundaries, it is imperative we transcend both the conventional growth-centred worldview and our growth-dependent economic and social systems....
View ArticleFrom Davos to Reykjavík: decoupling wellbeing from growth | Keynote at...
In June this year, Iceland’s Prime Minister Katrin Jakobsdóttir hosted the first Wellbeing Economy Forum in Reykjavík. Tim Jackson’s keynote there explored the relationship between the ‘wellbeing...
View ArticleWhy science needs the arts | Radio NZ programme with Tim Jackson
While we need less growth to put less demand on the planet's resources and slow down climate change, CUSP director Tim Jackson argues that we need more art, more plays and works of fiction to bring...
View ArticleNZ International Science Festival
The New Zealand International Science Festival hosted Prof Jackson this year with the support of the British Council New Zealand and the Pacific. He is joined by the Director of the Centre For...
View ArticleRishi Sunak’s ‘homage to catatonia’ | Blog
Rishi Sunak has rolled back the UK's net zero policies and ripped up decades of cross-party consensus on climate change, Tim Jackson writes. "Perhaps consensus is a commodity yet more fragile than...
View ArticleBlame Capitalism: Degrowing Pains | Vox.com podcast
#TodayExplained Podcast with Tim Jackson investigating the ailing capitalist model, and ‘why the degrowth movement is having a moment’. Tim recently joined Noel King for her vox.com series on ‘Blame...
View ArticleNeoliberalism and its Discontents: Is Ecological Economics the Answer
Hosted by the former Mayor of Toronto, David Miller, this Cities 1.5 podcast with Tim Jackson is looking to translate the theoretical into the practical, by discussing what cities can do to deliver...
View ArticleAudiobook | Post Growth—Life After Capitalism, narrated by Tim Jackson
We are pleased to announce the release of the audiobook edition of Tim Jackson's prize-winning "Post Growth—Life After Capitalism". Through his own narration, Tim brings a personal touch to the...
View ArticleGrowth and climate | French Ministry of Economy and Finance conference with...
The French Ministry of Economy and Finance hosted a conference on 5 December to discuss the trade-offs between emission reduction policies and economic prosperity. Hosted by Minister Bruno Le Maire,...
View ArticleLiving well today and tomorrow: young people, good life narratives, and...
In this working paper, Anastasia Loukianov, Kate Burningham and Tim Jackson explore young people’s use of shared social understandings to describe what is important in their present lives, to envision...
View ArticleGrowth dependency in the welfare state | Journal Paper
Modern economies rely on economic growth for stability and prosperity, but this dependence is ecologically unsustainable. Understanding growth dependency is crucial. This paper proposes a sector-led...
View ArticleConfronting the dilemma of growth. A response to Warlenius.
This commentary responds to a recent article purporting to identify ‘limits to degrowth’. This paper clarifies and sets in context the tensions between growth rates and decoupling rates on which the...
View ArticleHealth resilience and the global pandemic: the effect of social conditions on...
This paper shows that countries with robust health-related policy targets aimed at reducing non-communicable diseases (NCDs) experienced significantly lower mortality rates during the first year of the...
View ArticleWHO non-communicable diseases Global Monitoring Framework: Pandemic...
This study provides an empirical assessment of how effective the WHO’s Global Monitoring Framework for non-communicable diseases (NCDs) has been in improving COVID-19 resilience in low-income...
View ArticleThe British Economist Who Became a Celebrity With an Anti-Growth Pitch |...
A profile of Tim Jackson, exploring his recent work and the challenges he's tackling in the postgrowth field, written by Nick Romeo for the US magazine The New Republic. The piece is based on in-depth...
View ArticleGrowth and the planet | Reuters Podcast
Climate change is raising questions about a central tenet of economics: growth. Host Carmel Crimmins is joined by economist Tim Jackson to talk about consumerism and the environment and what “post...
View ArticleThe False Economy of Big Food. And the case for a new food economy | Report
New analysis commissioned by the Food, Farming and Countryside Commission (FFCC) has found that the costs of Britain’s unhealthy food system amount to £268 billion every year – almost equivalent to the...
View ArticleMacroeconomic, sectoral and financial dynamics in energy transitions: A...
This paper develops a stock-flow consistent, input-output model to simulate risks, opportunities, and non-linear dynamics associated with green investment, energy returns, financial risks, and various...
View ArticlePost-growth: the science of wellbeing within planetary boundaries | Journal...
A comprehensive new review by leading experts in the sustainability science field is challenging the long-held assumption that economic growth is necessary for societal progress. Published in The...
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