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Prof Tim Jackson
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Ecological Economist and Playwright. Author of »The Care Economy« (2025), »Post Growth« (2021) and »Prosperity Without Growth« (2009/2017). Director of @cusp.ac.uk.
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📚 Latest CUSP Newsletter live now // @timjackson.org.uk reflects on nearly a decade of CUSP research and advocacy, touching on natality, growth, #degrowth, and climate denial—plus new research and activities from across the CUSP community. → share.sender.net/campaigns/dU... cc #postgrowth #beyondGDP
January 15, 2026 at 12:00 PM
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How do we resolve the great challenges to health and wellbeing? In his Editorial, @kamranabbasi.bsky.social
welcomes the new @bmj.com special issue of resolutions, focusing this year on the climate emergency → bmj.com/content/392/...

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New Year’s resolutions for the climate emergency
How do we resolve the great challenges to health and wellbeing? Welcome to a BMJ special issue of resolutions. Our aim is to begin each year with a range of short essays on one of these great challeng...
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January 9, 2026 at 12:26 PM
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Climate breakdown is a profound abdication of care, argues @timjackson.org.uk in his new @bmj.com opinion piece. Addressing it takes more than tech fixes—it means reimagining the purpose of the economy.
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Prosperity as health: Why we need an economy of care for a liveable future | BMJ article by Tim Jackson
Climate breakdown should be understood as a profound abdication of care, argues CUSP co-Director Tim Jackson in an opinion piece commissioned for the Britis ...
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January 8, 2026 at 4:06 PM
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Like many, the insidious impact of social media on how our politics means I constantly wrestle with just leaving it vs finding analysis beyond polarisation-grateful for links! @timjackson.org.uk & Laura Clark for youtu.be/rTCnOD_szRw?... & timesofindia.indiatimes.com/blogs/the-wr... #Venezuela
Jeffrey Sachs Blasts US Power Grab Over Venezuela, Maduro Capture at Historic UN Meeting | AC1G
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January 6, 2026 at 7:37 PM
Just re-released by Penguin Random House: my 30-part ‘environmental thriller’ Cry of the Bittern was originally broadcast as a 30 part serial on BBC Radio 4 and is now available on all major audio streaming platforms.
Happy new listening! ➡️ timjackson.org.uk/cry-of-the-b... cc #CryOfTheBittern
Cry of the Bittern | BBC radio drama series by Tim Jackson re-released as audiobook
This month sees the audiobook release of Tim Jackson’s environmental drama series Cry of the Bittern. Originally broadcast on BBC Radio 4, the series has been re-released by Penguin and is now availab...
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January 8, 2026 at 6:59 PM
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Reflecting on Prof @timjackson.org.uk’s latest book The Care Economy, FFCC’s Dr Charlie Taverner makes the case for prioritising care in our food sector as a way of reorienting policy and practice towards the health of ourselves and the planet.
December 19, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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New blog: How can farmers and food workers care?

FFCC's Dr Charlie Taverner on how food work is valued and what farmers and delivery drivers have in common with nurses and doctors.

Read it here: ffcc.co.uk/conversation...

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How can farmers and food workers care?
Dr Charlie Taverner on how food work is valued and what farmers and delivery drivers have in common with nurses and doctor.
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December 19, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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We're looking forward to making practical progress together in 2026 and beyond.

To read the report ’Net Gain or Net Drain? follow this link: ffcc.co.uk/publications...

To see Prof Tim Jackson’s foreword, click here: ffcc.co.uk/conversation...
Net Gain or Net Drain?
A citizen-inspired approach to assessing the value of the UK agri-food industry.
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December 5, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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Yesterday, FFCC brought together leaders from across food, farming and land use for a cross-sector discussion on shared priorities and practical routes to action.
December 5, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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The high price of cheap food—who’s counting the cost of our national diet? // As the new @ffc-commission.bsky.social report launches, @timjackson.org.uk explores the hidden costs of a booming fast-food industry & what it means for our health, communities and environment. → cusp.ac.uk/themes/healt...
The high price of cheap food—who’s counting the cost of our national diet? | By Tim Jackson
To accompany the launch of the latest report by the UK’s Food, Farming and Countryside Commission, Prof Tim Jackson explores the hidden costs of our nationa ...
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December 4, 2025 at 10:53 AM
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Video: A World That Cares—Building an economy that values care | How the Light Gets In Festival with @timjackson.org.uk and Catherine Liu → cusp.ac.uk/themes/m/tj-... HT @iai.tv

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Video: A World That Cares | How the Light Gets In Festival with Tim Jackson and Catherine Liu
The pursuit of productivity often sidelines the essential work of care—whether for children, the sick, or the elderly. Catherine Liu, Tim Jackson, and David ...
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October 6, 2025 at 9:55 AM
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Tijd voor #CaringEconomists? @timjackson.org.uk ,welcome to the @caringmovement.bsky.social! "Als economen het over voorspoed hebben, hebben ze het vaak over wealth, materiële welvaart of rijkdom. U koppelt voorspoed aan health, gezondheid of welzijn". www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...
Een economie gericht op zorg in plaats van groei en individueel gewin? Het kan, zegt deze econoom
Tim Jackson | ecologisch econoom: De „hypernerveuze samenleving” met zijn burn-outs en psychische problemen eist z’n tol. Postgroeidenker Tim Jackson pleit voor een economie die draait om zorg en zorg...
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October 7, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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Postgrowth-econoom Tim Jackson: ‘We hebben meer zorg nodig, niet nog meer rijkdom’
www.volkskrant.nl/economie/pos... maar hier worden geen debatten over gevierd. Zou wel zo fijn zijn.
Postgrowth-econoom Tim Jackson: ‘We hebben meer zorg nodig, niet nog meer rijkdom’
Zorg is veel belangrijker dan economische groei, stelt de Britse ecologisch econoom Tim Jackson aan de vooravond van de verkiezingen. ‘We moeten de overgang maken naar een duurzame samenleving.’
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October 9, 2025 at 6:18 AM
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#RoutledgeRevisited

Prosperity Without Growth
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"Cuts through the intellectual clamour with clarity, courage & hope" @naomiaklein.bsky.social
"Essential reading for those refusing to succumb to a dystopic future" @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social

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October 9, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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Britain’s food is cheap, but farmers are squeezed & too many people can’t afford a healthy diet. In this @ffc-commission.bsky.social podcast by Will Evans, @timjackson.org.uk and Emily Norton discuss the true cost of cheap food + how to create a fairer, healthier system. → cusp.ac.uk/themes/food/...
We Need To Talk About... Cheap Food | Podcast with Tim Jackson and Emily Norton, hosted by Will Evans
Britain’s food is cheap, but farmers are squeezed and too many people can’t afford a healthy diet. In this podcast, Will Evans, Emily Norton and Tim Jackson ...
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September 17, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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We are always told to be more productive and successful. But this takes a toll on our physical and mental health. | https://bit.ly/3VfvQen

Join professor Catherine Liu, economist Tim Jackson, and journalist David Goodhart. to debate how to build hope in a world that doesn't care.

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A world that cares
We are constantly told to be more productive, more efficient and more successful. This pursuit of individual perfection, however, is taking its toll on our physical and mental well-being. And whilst w...
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September 15, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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🔔🚨 “The call for cheap food is a weapon of a dysfunctional system.”

🎧 Hear the full conversation at 👉https://ffcc.co.uk/conversations/we-need-to-talk-about-cheap-food
September 11, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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Will prosperity ever be measured in health, not wealth?—Join @timjackson.org.uk & @kateraworth.bsky.social at The Conduit to explore an economy organised around care, not growth—and why it’s urgently needed for people & the planet.
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The Care Economy: Tim Jackson in conversation with Kate Raworth
Join renowned economists Tim Jackson and Kate Raworth at The Conduit for a thought-provoking event asking: what if prosperity were measured in health, not w ...
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September 5, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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"But what happens to our economy when growth itself is increasingly hard to come by? What happens to our politics when we have no policies for a post-growth world? ... And what happens to our science when such questions are deemed to be outside the remit of inquiry?" - @timjackson.org.uk
September 10, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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📚 The latest CUSP Newsletter is out! Alongside a round-up of news from across our network, CUSP co-director @timjackson.org.uk reflects on the Centre’s 10th anniversary—and warns of a troubling shift in research funding away from #postgrowth inquiry.

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State of the Art | CUSP Newsletter, September 2025
As CUSP turns ten, Tim Jackson highlights the troubling shift in UK research funding away from post-growth inquiry. He argues that questioning growth remains vital in an era of climate crisis, inequal...
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September 9, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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He will talk to us about his book The Care Economy, which not only explains why wealth and GDP-growth should not be an aim of policy making, but - more positively - why health (broadly understood) and thus care, should be the central purpose.

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September 8, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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Public professionals and academics interested in #Postgrowth and #degrowth, based in the Netherlands (or nearby):

Tuesday 23 September Tim Jackson, will visit Utrecht. We will hold an expert meeting in the morning. For more information, see visions-for-the-future.sites.uu.nl/events/tim-j...
Tim Jackson on The Care Economy – a meeting for policy advisors, professionals in the public domain, and academics
Utrecht (Universiteitsmuseum), Tuesday 23 September, 10.00-12.00 Care is the foundation of organic life. But its fate in the economy is precarious and uncertain. In our hearts it’s honoured as an irre...
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September 8, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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In our podcasts we like to recommend books and here are some of our recommendations from our latest, including books by Nancy Folbre, Marilyn Waring, @devikadutt.bsky.social @ingridhk.bsky.social, @cacrisalves.bsky.social, @surbhikesar.bsky.social, @timjackson.org.uk & @clubofrome.org. #EconSky
September 2, 2025 at 8:37 AM