Economics for a full world
I remember vividly the first time I came across Herman Daly’s work. It was in a crowded upstairs meeting room in London sometime in 1989 during a presentation on the relative costs of different carbon...
View ArticleISIE conference 2015 | Guildford, July 2015
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View ArticleIf the rich world aimed for minimal growth, would it be a disaster or a...
“ANYONE who believes that exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist,” remarked (the economist) Kenneth Boulding. John Stuart Mill devoted an entire...
View ArticleESRC blog: The case for sustainable prosperity
:: Why did you pursue an academic career? :: I am an ‘accidental academic’, starting my professional life working on a voluntary (and then freelance) basis doing research for environmental...
View ArticleMateriality and spiritually in Marx, Darwin and Malthus
I am not quite sure why discussions about Marx elicit such eloquence, but they invariably do. Perhaps it is because, at its best, Marx’s own writing had the same quality. At any rate, John Bellamy...
View ArticleForging an economy fit for the future
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View ArticleTowards a sustainable prosperity
Prosperity matters. A prosperous society is concerned not only with income and financial wealth, but also with the health and wellbeing of its citizens, with their access to good quality education, and...
View ArticleDesign for life: a commentary on Peter Sterling’s ‘why we consume’
Having spent a delightful half hour stimulating my pleasure circuits with Peter Sterling’s addictively insightful essay—and a further (slightly less delightful) two hours trying to free up some mapping...
View ArticleLimits Revisited
To coincide with the launch of a new All Party Parliamentary Group on Limits to Growth, Tim Jackson discusses the continuing relevance of the Club of Rome's groundbreaking report in today's context and...
View ArticleInvesting in the economy of tomorrow
Tim Jackson, member of the Alliance Trust Investment advisory committee, looks at what tomorrow's economy will be like and why ATI are well placed to benefit from this inevitable shift. (This blog is...
View ArticleAn economy that works
Prosperity isn’t just about earning more and having more, it consists in our ability to participate meaningfully in the life of society. A vital element, Tim Jackson argues, that has gone missing for...
View ArticleHow to kick the growth addiction | Tim Jackson in conversation with Allen White
Endless economic growth, long the rallying cry of the conventional paradigm, endangers our future. Ecological economist Tim Jackson, CUSP Director and author of Prosperity Without Growth, explores the...
View ArticleETUI | Prosperity without Growth – Foundations for the Economy of Tomorrow
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View Article10th anniversary | Sustainable Development at University of St Andrews
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View ArticlePolitical populism and sustainability, Nexus Conference 2017 with Nathalie...
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View ArticleDemocracy and Sustainable Development | FDSD relaunch, April 2015
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View ArticleCan economies thrive without growth? | RSA Radio, June 2017
When economies stop growing they go into crisis, but it seems impossible for them to grow forever without causing ecological catastrophe. Matthew Taylor talks to Tim Jackson about the big dilemma in...
View ArticleLearning to Thrive | Innovation Unit event with Tim Jackson, London 28 June
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View ArticleThe future of ‘good work’| Unusual Suspects Festival, London 14 June 2017
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