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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. 🌐 https://timjackson.org.uk

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CUSP //: Post Growth Research Centre @cusp.ac.uk · 3d

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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CUSP //: Post Growth Research Centre @cusp.ac.uk · 22d

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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Institute of Art and Ideas @iai.tv · 24d

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.

#medsky #polsky

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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Food, Farming and Countryside Commission @ffc-commission.bsky.social · 28d

🔔🚨 “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

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CUSP //: Post Growth Research Centre @cusp.ac.uk · Sep 9

📚 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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Ingrid Robeyns @ingridrobeyns.bsky.social · Sep 8

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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Ingrid Robeyns @ingridrobeyns.bsky.social · Sep 8

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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CUSP //: Post Growth Research Centre @cusp.ac.uk · Sep 5

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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EconomicsInTen @economicsinten.bsky.social · Sep 2

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

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oekom @oekom.de · Aug 29

Wie sähe eine grundlegende Neuausrichtung unseres Wirtschaftssystems aus, die endlich Menschen und ihre Gesundheit über das Streben nach Profit stellt?

🎙Um diese Frage dreht sich der zweite Teil der Doppelfolge des oekom podcasts mit Texten von @timjackson.org.uk.

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Research Professional News @resprofnews.bsky.social · Aug 28

ESRC ‘bar against’ degrowth research branded ‘anti-scientific’.

Research council leader signals shift against funding projects that question benefits of economic growth.

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ESRC ‘bar against’ degrowth research branded ‘anti-scientific’ - Research Professional News

Research council leader signals shift against funding projects that question benefits of economic growth

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Centre for Thriving Places @thrivingplaces.bsky.social · Aug 27

🎧 PODCAST: Is Prosperity Possible Without Growth? In an age of environmental crisis and rising inequality, is our obsession with economic growth doing more harm than good? Tim Jackson of @cusp.ac.uk on why rethinking our values may be the most important decision we face.

Prosperity Possible Without Growth? | Intelligence Squared podcast with Tim Jackson

In his latest book The Care Economy, Jackson issues the powerful warning: our fixation on growth has come at the cost of the most vital parts of our lives—c ...

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Degrowth Collective @degrowth.bsky.social · Aug 24

www.sufficiencywellbeing.com/p/the-care-e... interview with @timjackson.org.uk

The Care Economy

Vlad Bunea: Your new book, The Care Economy, reads as a thoughtful meditation about the human condition, a fireside lesson about the purpose of our economic system, and an invitation to construct a ve...

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Gaya Herrington @gayaherrington.bsky.social · Aug 19

The podcast about Herman Daly will be out soon now! I'm so honored to have been included by @c40cities.bsky.social in this series along with @timjackson.org.uk and @kateraworth.bsky.social. Daly's legacy is the mycelium feeding our work and that of so many others. Link to the teaser: lnk.to/HDteaser

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TEASER - Going Steady: Happy Birthday, Herman Daly

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CUSP //: Post Growth Research Centre @cusp.ac.uk · Aug 5

Creating a Care Economy—This podcast with @timjackson.org.uk explores how the pandemic and recent global conflicts underscore care’s critical importance to our lives, yet reveal its consistent neglect in economic systems focused on growth and profit. → cusp.ac.uk/themes/aetw/... #TheCareEconomy

Creating a Care Economy | The Deep Dive podcast with Tim Jackson

In this episode of The Deep Dive, host Phillip McKenzie speaks with Tim Jackson about his latest book, The Care Economy. The conversation examines how the p ...

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Food, Farming and Countryside Commission @ffc-commission.bsky.social · Jul 30

📢 Listen to ‘Big Food, Big Power’ here 👉 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

And read 'The False Economy of Big Food' here 👉 ffcc.co.uk/publications...

The False Economy of Big Food

And the case for a new food economy

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Food, Farming and Countryside Commission @ffc-commission.bsky.social · Jul 30

💪 Citizens in #TheFoodConversation want businesses help to account, so that profit doesn’t come before people or planet. Our report with @timjackson.org.uk shows Big Food is a false economy, with unhealthy food costing £268bn every year – almost equivalent to the total annual UK healthcare spend.

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Food, Farming and Countryside Commission @ffc-commission.bsky.social · Jul 30

🎧 Great episode on Big Food & the power these companies wield in our society.

🧩 As @bmj.com's Jennifer Richardson says: Big Food has an industry playbook they use to delay or water down legislation and protect shareholder profit – from corporate social responsibility spin to regulatory loopholes.

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CUSP //: Post Growth Research Centre @cusp.ac.uk · Jul 23

Public debt and the post-growth challenge: the case for a flexible monetary and fiscal policy framework | New working paper by Andrew Jackson and @timjackson.org.uk ➡️ cusp.ac.uk/themes/aetw/...
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oekom @oekom.de · Jul 17

🫂 Was wäre, wenn wir Fürsorge ins Zentrum unserer Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft stellen würden – statt immer nur Effizienz und Wachstum?

Diesen Fragen widmet sich das Essay von Ökonom @timjackson.org.uk im neuen oekom podcast.

🎧 Jetzt auf der Podcast-Plattform eurer Wahl und unter oekom.de/podcast

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CUSP //: Post Growth Research Centre @cusp.ac.uk · Jul 7

🎂 Happy 77th, NHS! To celebrate, the government wants you to start hustling. In his searing critique, @timjackson.org.uk unpacks how the #NHS10YearPlan turns care into commerce—and Bevan’s dream into a growth strategy. → cusp.ac.uk/themes/aetw/... cc #FitForTheFuture #PostGrowth #TheCareEconomy

Fit for whose future? The Mary Poppins moment is over | Blog by Tim Jackson

"Ask not what we can do for our health. Ask only what our healthcare can do for growth." In this searing critique, Tim Jackson exposes how the UK ...

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CUSP //: Post Growth Research Centre @cusp.ac.uk · Jun 10

Prosperity in a Careless Age | CUSP Newsletter, June 2025 → share.sender.net/campaigns/bG...

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Prosperity in a Careless Age | CUSP Newsletter, June 2025

In this edition: the global launch of The Care Economy and related events; recent research on social care, ecotherapy, and psychological flow; new contributions on sustainable marketing and rural plan...

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CUSP //: Post Growth Research Centre @cusp.ac.uk · Jun 8

"A society which builds its civilization on the necessity for violence and on the systematic denigration of care is sowing the seeds of its own destruction."— @timjackson.org.uk #TheCareEconomy

cc #HumanRights #Peace #War #Capitalism #PostGrowth #Degrowth #CarelessEconomy #ÖkonomieDerFürsorge

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CUSP //: Post Growth Research Centre @cusp.ac.uk · Jun 3

The Care Economy: @timjackson.org.uk in conversation with Jen Morgan from the @healthfoundation.bsky.social.
🗓️ 17 Jun, 7pm
📍 London, Waterstones Trafalgar Square
🎟️ Details and tickets via→ www.waterstones.com/events/the-c...
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CUSP //: Post Growth Research Centre @cusp.ac.uk · May 30

Care maintains the world. The market made it invisible.

In The Care Economy, economist and writer @timjackson.org.uk exposes the violence behind growth-at-all-costs and calls for an economy that heals, not harms.
Out now (US + global):
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CUSP //: Post Growth Research Centre @cusp.ac.uk · May 30

The False Economy of Big Food. cusp.ac.uk/themes/aetw/...

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Andrew Keen @ajkeen.bsky.social · May 29

keenon.substack.com/p/fuck-the-p... @timjackson.org.uk on how to Fuck the Patriarchy

Fuck the Patriarchy: Tim Jackson's Path to a "Care" Economy

Episode 2549: Building a Care Economy for Human Health and Planetary Survival

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Prof Tim Jackson @timjackson.org.uk · May 24

So many heroes of #thecareeconomy: @nancyfolbre.bsky.social @rianeeisler-cps.bsky.social @blackmollie.bsky.social @CarolGilligan, @SarahBlafferHrdy, @NancyFraser, @HilaryCottam, @JoanTronto, @BereniceFisher, @stephaniekelton.bsky.social, @azaharap.bsky.social
My thanks to all of them

nancyfolbre.bsky.social @nancyfolbre.bsky.social · May 23

This book is full of righteous fun. It's a compelling take-down of the dismal science and a rocking manifesto for care provision. It can help us reach for an equitable and sustainable economic system.

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Willy De Backer BE @art4theark.bsky.social · May 24

My reflections on the future of #pensions in times of ecological overshoot and geopolitical chaos.
"The grim reality is that virtually no research takes this kind of systemic, ecological approach to pension sustainability into consideration"
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Can Pensions Survive the Future?

We are entering an era where economic growth may stagnate while ecological systems collapse. Climate disasters and new geopolitical conflicts drain government budgets and question the very foundations...

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nancyfolbre.bsky.social @nancyfolbre.bsky.social · May 23

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