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Confronting inequality: basic income and the right to work
Ten years after the financial crisis, inequality in advanced economies is still rising. Tim Jackson presents the findings of a new CUSP working paper to explore potential solutions. "There are...
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‘Secular stagnation’ meets the ‘GDP fetish’
Tim Jackson introduces his new CUSP working paper ‘The Post-Growth Challenge’, in which he discusses the state of advanced economies ten years after the crisis. Our attempts to prop up an ailing...
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The Post-Growth Challenge — Secular Stagnation, Inequality and the Limits to...
Sluggish recovery in the wake of the financial crisis has revived discussion of a ‘secular stagnation’. These conditions have been blamed for rising inequality and political instability. Tim Jackson...
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The Future Of Work — Lessons from the History of Utopian Thought | Paper
This paper aims to contribute towards the development of a political economy of work fit for purpose in a world of social and environmental limits. In order to get beyond today’s dominant conceptions...
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Understanding the ‘New Normal’—The Challenge of Secular Stagnation | Policy...
This first in a series of briefing papers on building An Economy That Works explores the underlying phenomenon of ‘secular stagnation’ – a long-term decline in the rate of growth of the Gross Domestic...
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LowGrow SFC: An ecological macroeconomic simulation model
System dynamics model by Tim Jackson and Peter Victor is live now, developing sustainable prosperity scenarios for the Canadian economy out to 2067. LowGrow SFC is part of a suite of system dynamics...
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Paradise Lost?—The iron cage of consumerism
Our systematic failure to address existential anxiety robs society of meaning and blinds us to the suffering of others; to persistent poverty; to the extinction of species; to the health of global...
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The Dilemma of Growth | Panel debate w Tim Jackson and David Folkerts-Landau
As part of the 2018 ZEIT Wirtschaftsforum, Tim Jackson and David Folkerts-Landau (Chief Economist, Deutsche Bank) were invited for a debate on the dilemma of growth, the relevance of GDP growth for...
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Rethinking 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...
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A tale of two utopias: Work in a post-growth world | Paper
In this paper, we aim to contribute to the literature on post-growth futures. Modern imaginings of the future are constrained by the assumptions of growth-based capitalism. To escape these assumptions...
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Let’s be less productive—Restoring the valure of care | Opinion piece for The...
The challenges facing the world and the UK today are unprecedented. A global health emergency, a global climate crisis, and a catastrophic loss of biodiversity are undermining the basis for future...
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Will the global economy recover from COVID-19? | Tim Jackson in Al Jazeera...
Al Jazeera ‘Start Here’ programme with CUSP director Tim Jackson, taking an international view on the COVID-19 health and economic crisis—and where to start to ‘build back better’. Continue reading...
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Biodiversity in a post-growth environment | Evidence submission to the EAC...
In early Spring this year, written submissions were invited to aid the Committee in prioritising its future programme of work. CUSP director Tim Jackson submitted evidence, making the case for...
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Video | How can we build back better after COVID? | Panel discussion w/ Tim...
Set out to engage MPs across the political spectrum, the online discussion was chaired by Krishnan Guru-Murthy (Channel 4), and expertly deliberated on the prospects for a socially and environmentally...
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Video | Shifting priorities in post-COVID recovery—Towards an economy of...
Panel discussion with CUSP Director Tim Jackson, Maria Joao Rodrigues (Foundation for European Progressive Studies), Apollonia Miola (OECD) and Meera Ghani (ECOLISE); hosted by Peter Schmidt (EESC)....
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Using critical slowing down indicators to understand economic growth rate...
Global economic stability could be difficult to recover in the wake of the Covid-19, this Nature article finds. Even before the Covid-19 crisis, many of the world’s leading economies were experiencing...
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Video | Divestment: Economic, Historical, and Moral Perspectives | Panel with...
On 12 February this year, a number of student groups within Cambridge University's Christ's College hosted a panel with alumni of Christ's to share their expertise on various aspects of the divestment...
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The Altruist Within: In pursuit of sustainability and justice in a broken...
This blog is an edited version of a keynote CUSP director Tim Jackson gave at the 2013 Sea of Faith Annual Conference in Leicester. In outlining the philosophical foundation of a different approach to...
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Recovery or Renewal? Time for an economic rethink | Blog with Craig D Rye
A recent study of long-term fluctuations in economic growth published in Nature Scientific Reports suggests both danger and opportunity in the emerging debate about post Covid-19 economic recovery. In...
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The Transition to a Sustainable Prosperity | Paper by Tim Jackson and Peter...
This paper presents a stock-flow consistent (SFC) macroeconomic simulation model for Canada. Contrary to the widely accepted view, the results suggest that ‘green growth’ (in the Carbon Reduction...
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