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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 ...

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

The False Economy of Big Food And the case for a new food economy

📢 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...

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):
🔗 timjackson.org.uk/the-care-eco...
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Flash Fiction - Green Stories Project Ended March 2020 Congratulations to our 1st, 2nd and 3rd place winners. The judges loved your writing! Here are the winners and a note from each writer on their fiction.    1st – Andrea Reisenauer, Th...

Our new #FlashFiction #competition has launched. We're asking for <500 words about moments of #epiphany where attitudes/behaviours change for the greener – see www.greenstories.org.uk/flash-fictio... £1000 ($1200) worth of prizes. @climateculturesetc.bsky.social @andrealearned.bsky.social

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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🫂 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

Help wanted: Reeves seeks heavyweight economic advisers as budget looms Chancellor under pressure to recruit new experts as John Van Reenen and Anna Valero return to academia

I can offer suggestions - @kateraworth.bsky.social @annpettifor.bsky.social @dhnnjyn.bsky.social @timjackson.org.uk

New ideas instead more of the old failed ones of #austerity and making the disabled, ill and young pay as the have-yachts coin it

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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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Report – Mind the Gap – POLYPROBLEM

Why is ditching single-use plastic so hard, even when we want to? The new POLYPROBLEM report explores the intention–action gap; featuring an interview with CUSP co-director @timjackson.org.uk. → polyproblem.org/reports/repo...
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The Fast and the Furious | Blog by Smith Mordak What is economic growth really measuring? It’s not just numbers – it’s speed and acceleration. Using the metaphor of economies as cars on a racetrack, Smith ...

What is economic growth measuring? It’s not just numbers—it’s speed and acceleration. Using the metaphor of economies as cars on a racetrack, Smith Mordak shows how even small growth rates widen global inequality—and why rethinking the pace and rules of growth is urgent. cusp.ac.uk/themes/aetw/...

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 ...

🎂 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

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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 ...

"The principles of The Care Economy are already known to us. But they’re disturbingly absent from this 10 year vision." cusp.ac.uk/themes/aetw/...

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 ...

🎂 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

"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

Tim Jackson: "El crecimiento económico es un tipo de autoengaño a escala social, una negación adictiva" - Climática, el medio especializado en clima y biodiversidad El escritor y economista medioambiental Tim Jackson publica nuevo ensayo, 'The Care Economy' (Polity, 2025), centrado en los cuidados.

Tim Jackson: «El crecimiento económico es un tipo de autoengaño a escala social, una negación adictiva»
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On a new ⬅️ Pullback ⬅️ S4, E9 Dr. Tim Jackson explains why our need for constant growth is incompatible with a sustainable future and bad for our well-being, and shares what a post growth society premised on a care economy could look like.

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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...

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

cc #TheCareEconomy #PostGrowth #Degrowth #WellbeingEconomy #CarelessEconomy #ÖkonomieDerFürsorge #ProsperityAsHealth #EconomyAsCare

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...

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

cc #TheCareEconomy #PostGrowth #Degrowth #WellbeingEconomy #CarelessEconomy #ÖkonomieDerFürsorge #ProsperityAsHealth #EconomyAsCare

"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

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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De-growth and the Care Economy with Dr. Tim Jackson Our global economic system is premised on the idea that gross domestic product needs to constantly grow. But on a finite planet, is green growth possible? And is prosperity possible in a world without growth? Today’s guest is Dr. Tim Jackson , Professor of Sustainable Development at the University

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By: Kristen Pue on Sunday, June 1, 2025

Tim Jackson: «El crecimiento económico es un tipo de autoengaño a escala social, una negación adictiva»

El escritor y economista medioambiental publica nuevo ensayo, 'The Care Economy' (Polity, 2025), centrado en los cuidados. 

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):
🔗 timjackson.org.uk/the-care-eco...
#TheCareEconomy #PostGrowth

a few of my favorite academics published a paper that exposes some controversial truths about our economic system.

here’s why they recommend a shift to a post-growth economy:

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

“We’ve built an economy that profits from making us sick—and calls it progress.” @timjackson.org.uk joins the Cities 1.5 podcast ‪to unpack how growth-at-all-costs fuels illness, inequality—and war. Full episode via ⏯️ cusp.ac.uk/themes/aetw/...

cc #TheCareEconomy #ÖkonomieDerFürsorge #PostGrowth

A call for psychological and behavioural science on degrowth - Nature Human Behaviour Degrowth is a socioeconomic paradigm that prioritizes planetary health and human wellbeing through a democratically planned reduction of unnecessary production and consumption. We urge psychological a...

There are physical limits to growth — and whether we like it or not, we’ll need to learn to live in post-growth societies. We urge psychological and behavioural scientists to study this important topic and suggest ways to develop an integrated research agenda.

🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Tim Jackson

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.

timjackson.org.uk/the-care-eco...