Measuring Prosperity—Navigating the Options | Paper
Since its development in the 1930s, GDP has been the most widely used measure of the health and progress of an economy, being adopted as the principal policy objective of countless national and...
View Article2050 is too late—we must drastically cut emissions much sooner
At current rates of reduction, the UK fair carbon budget will be spent in just four years' time, Tim Jackson writes in his blog for The Conversation. "Every year that progress is delayed, the challenge...
View ArticleEngagement in a new climate | Editorial for the Environmental Scientist
Environmental engagement is on television screens, in the streets and at your local book group; everyone's doing it. Whether you're engrossed in the latest nature documentary or watching the news in...
View Article“I believed I understood the land”| Tim Jackson reading poem by Adam Horovitz
In July 2019, the RSA Food, Farming & Countryside Commission with CUSP director Tim Jackson as Commissioner and Chair of the Research Advisory Group have published their final report, calling for...
View ArticleTalking Development | CONCORD Europe Podcast w/ Tim Jackson
“Talking Development” podcasts are a series of podcasts developed by CONCORD Europe aiming at making development topics understandable and accessible to all. For the fourth episode, they welcome Tim...
View ArticleThe storied state of economics: Review of Robert Shiller’s Narrative...
Robert Shiller’s new book probes how social behaviour trumps statistics in determining the fate of economies—Tim Jackson weighs it up. (This article is posted on the Nature website). The post The...
View ArticleLowGrow SFC—A stock-flow-consistent ecological macroeconomic model for Canada...
This working paper presents a stock-flow consistent (SFC) simulation model of a national economy, calibrated on the basis of Canadian data. LowGrow SFC describes the evolution of the Canadian economy...
View ArticleRethinking Economic Policy in the EU | First Postgrowth conference at EU...
Scientists, politicians, and policymakers gathering in Brussels for landmark conference: Hosted at the EU parliament, the multi-stakeholder event is exploring visions and solutions for a post-growth...
View ArticleA shift in temperature—the financial challenge of a zero carbon economy |...
Climate emergency demands a wholescale shift away from fossil fuels. Tim Jackson and Andrew Jackson reflect here on the emerging concept of 'transition risk', a key element in the Bank of England's...
View ArticleOur Future in the Land | Final report of the RSA Food, Farming & Countryside...
The RSA Food, Farming & Countryside Commission with CUSP director Tim Jackson as Commissioner and Chair of the Research Advisory Group have published their final report, calling for radical 10-year...
View ArticleLiving the Good Life on Instagram —An exploration of lay understandings of...
While the consumerist approach to what living well can mean permeates traditional media, the extent to which it appears in people’s own depictions of the good life is unclear. Using multimodal...
View ArticleHM Treasury’s Decarbonisation of the UK Economy and Green Finance Inquiry |...
Earlier in 2019, the UK Treasury Select Committee launched an inquiry into the decarbonisation of the UK economy and green finance, set out to scrutinise the role of the Treasury department, regulators...
View ArticleEthics in context: essential flexibility in an international...
In this paper, we reflect on our experiences of planning and conducting the International CYCLES project involving photo elicitation with young people in Bangladesh, Brazil, India, Japan, New Zealand,...
View ArticleUnravelling the claims for (and against) green growth | Science Article by...
It is clear that the larger the economy becomes, the more difficult it is to decouple that growth from its material impacts... This isn't to suggest that decoupling itself is either unnecessary or...
View ArticleWhat progress do we want? | Tim Jackson in conversation with Anne Hidalgo,...
On 22 January, CUSP director Tim Jackson is joining the opening panel at the 10th ‘Parlement des Entrepreneurs d’Avenir’ at the OECD in Paris. Co-panelists include Anne Hidalgo (Mayor of Paris),...
View ArticleIs growth an illusion? | Tim Jackson in discussion w/ Andrew McAfee and...
Under the title Is Growth an Illusion?, Deutsche Bank is hosting an event programme in Davos, accompanying the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum; to discuss the future of growth with leading...
View ArticleTowards a Wellbeing Economy | EESC calls for a new vision of prosperity
The European Economic and Social Committee overwhelmingly adopted an ‘own-initiative opinion’ on the sustainable and inclusive ‘wellbeing economy’ that Europe needs. A call on the EU 'for a new vision...
View ArticleWellbeing and Productivity: A Review of the Literature | Paper
This report reviews the relationships between the different aspects of wellbeing, productivity, and productivity growth. It is the culmination of a desk-based evidence review, survey, and a mapping...
View ArticleEnergy and Productivity—A Review of the Literature | Paper
The UK is experiencing a period of low productivity growth. Although exacerbated by the financial crisis of 2008, the underlying trend is longer and more persistent. This report aims to expand...
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Wellbeing Matters—Tackling growth dependency | Policy Briefing for APPG on...
This policy briefing highlights some alternatives to the conventional approach to measuring social progress. It presents a three-fold strategy for moving beyond GDP by: changing the way we measure...
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