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What can prosperity possibly mean in a world of environmental, social and economic limits?—We work with people, policy and business to address this question, developing pragmatic steps towards a shared and lasting prosperity. 🌐 cusp.ac.uk

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CUSP //: Post Growth Research Centre @cusp.ac.uk · 13h
Held Hostage // New report by @timjackson.org.uk for the @ffc-commission.bsky.social shows that unhealthy diets cost almost £300bn a year in health, social and economic costs—yet making healthy food affordable would require a fraction of that. 🔗 cusp.ac.uk/themes/food/... cc #PublicHealth #BigFood
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Held Hostage—How Big Food is still hijacking public health and undermining public finances | Blog by Tim Jackson
Two years on from The False Economy of Big Food, the UK’s food system remains locked in a costly contradiction: while unhealthy diets drive almost £300 bill ...
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Food, Farming and Countryside Commission @ffc-commission.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
🚨True cost of UK’s food system is nearly £300 billion a year, and rising 📈 Updated analysis from @timjackson.org.uk shows the economic cost of the UK’s unhealthy food system has risen to £298 billion a year, up from £268 billion just two years ago. Read 👉 ffcc.co.uk/publications...
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tina-hearn.bsky.social @tina-hearn.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
"we confront a core existential problem of contemporary capitalism: the extent to which the need to sustain the common world has become channelled into an instinct to sustain private property" #climate #inheritance #inequality cusp.ac.uk/themes/m/wp2...
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Succession Economics: Sustaining prosperity beyond death | Working Paper by Will Davies
Contemporary economic and ecological politics frequently revolves around a fundamental problem, of what has been left to us by previous generations, and wha ...
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CUSP //: Post Growth Research Centre @cusp.ac.uk · 10/09/2026
What shapes #HMTreasury’s response to climate and nature loss? CUSP director @timjackson.org.uk's recent evidence to the ongoing EAC inquiry challenges the growth, wellbeing and discounting assumptions behind The Green Book. 🔗 cusp.ac.uk/themes/aetw/... — #PostGrowth #WellbeingEconomy #Degrowth
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HM Treasury and the economics of climate and nature | EAC evidence submission by Tim Jackson
The EAC is currently examining HM Treasury’s role in shaping the UK’s response to climate change and nature loss, including how long-term environmental risk ...
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CUSP //: Post Growth Research Centre @cusp.ac.uk · 15/07/2026
Confronting Extractivism // @timjackson.org.uk has contributed to a new report from Ernst & Young’s New Economy Unit (NEU), exploring how businesses can help drive the transition away from #extractivism towards a regenerative economy. 🔗 cusp.ac.uk/themes/aetw/... #PostGrowth #degrowth #beyondgrowth
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Confronting extractivism: new EY report with contributions by Tim Jackson
A groundbreaking new report from Ernst & Young's New Economy Unit (NEU) shines a harsh light on the extractivism which characterises modern capital ...
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Xavier Cervantes @xaviercervantes.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
"La prosperitat té a veure sobretot amb la salut i no amb la riquesa", diu @timjackson.org.uk en aquesta conversa amb @jordinopca.bsky.social a propòsit del llibre 'L'economia de la cura', publicat en català per @arcadia-ed.bsky.social llegim.ara.cat/128_589b62?u...
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Tim Jackson: "La prosperitat té a veure sobretot amb la salut i no amb la riquesa"
Economista, professor universitari i assagista. Autor de 'L'economia de la cura'
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CUSP //: Post Growth Research Centre @cusp.ac.uk · 15/07/2026
Confronting Extractivism // @timjackson.org.uk has contributed to a new report from Ernst & Young’s New Economy Unit (NEU), exploring how businesses can help drive the transition away from #extractivism towards a regenerative economy. 🔗 cusp.ac.uk/themes/aetw/... #PostGrowth #degrowth #beyondgrowth
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Confronting extractivism: new EY report with contributions by Tim Jackson
A groundbreaking new report from Ernst & Young's New Economy Unit (NEU) shines a harsh light on the extractivism which characterises modern capital ...
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CUSP //: Post Growth Research Centre @cusp.ac.uk · 01/07/2026
Community-rooted social enterprises are transforming local food systems by combining trading with social impact and reaching underserved communities. They should be recognised as essential food-system partners.—New policy briefing by Fergus Lyon et al→ cusp.ac.uk/themes/p/sef... cc #Groundswell2026
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The role of social enterprise in transforming the UK Food System | Policy Paper
New briefing by CUSP researchers summarises evidence from the SEFS project on how social enterprises are contributing to healthier, fairer and more sustaina ...
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Prof Julia Steinberger 🌹🌱🌍 #ClimateAction #Fightfascism @jksteinberger.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
This is "climate necropolitics". Our deaths are baked in, of no consequence to the powerful, to our landlords, employers, governments. "Climate necropolitics means we are being sacrificed. There is nothing passive or natural about this process." jksteinberger.medium.com/climate-necr... 5/7
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Climate necropolitics
I have been thinking of politics and death recently. In fact it’s all I can think about. I think you should too.
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CUSP //: Post Growth Research Centre @cusp.ac.uk · 19/06/2026
The Care Economy: reimagining health and care | Q/NHS Alliance workshop with @timjackson.org.uk and Jen Morgan, 🗓️ Online 23 June 2026, 12pm (BST)⁠ ⁠🔗 cusp.ac.uk/.../health/t... —⁠ #TheCareEconomy #ProsperityAsHealth #EconomyAsCare #WellbeingEconomy #PublicHealth cc @nhsconfed.org
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The Care Economy: reimagining health and care | Q/NHS Alliance workshop with Tim Jackson and Jen Morgan, Online 23 June 2026
CUSP co-director Tim Jackson joins Jen Morgan from the Q-Community at an NHS Alliance event to explore the value of care, its place in economic thinking, an ...
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CUSP //: Post Growth Research Centre @cusp.ac.uk · 17/06/2026
🌍 The latest CUSP Newsletter is live now. // Co-director @timjackson.org.uk reflects on aggressive expansionism, rising militarism, and justice systems that punish protest while shielding atrocities. // + New research from across the CUSP community. ➡️ share.sender.net/campaigns/ge... cc #postgrowth
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Antje Otto @angie0.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
The Economists have spoken. Poverty is manufactured embedded in a socially and ecologically unsustainable economic system. More than 550 signatories to date call on governments to adopt indicators beyond economic growth to enable human and environmental flourishing to dismantle poverty.
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CUSP //: Post Growth Research Centre @cusp.ac.uk · 10/06/2026
"Poverty is manufactured. That is the bad news – and the good news. What has been manufactured can be dismantled and replaced." → www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... — cc #PostGrowth #Degrowth #WellbeingEconomy
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We economists have done the maths: ‘growth’ is a doomed strategy – there is a better way | Olivier De Schutter and others
Our roadmap has been shaped by experts across the world. We call on political leaders at all levels to use it, says Olivier De Schutter and others
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CUSP //: Post Growth Research Centre @cusp.ac.uk · 08/06/2026
New CUSP research identifies how to make #postgrowth work globally: financial transfers from North to South + international cooperation. The PADME model shows this prevents debt, inflation & unemployment in the South. → cusp.ac.uk/themes/aetw/... #Postgrowth #Degrowth #GlobalJustice
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Post-growth and the North-South divide: A stock-flow consistent scenario analysis | Journal paper
An unregulated post-growth transition in the North can cause crises in the South: debt, inflation, unemployment. That's the finding of a new paper by D ...
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CUSP //: Post Growth Research Centre @cusp.ac.uk · 28/05/2026
Is modern economics built on a lie?—In a guest post for CUSP, Paul Bain describes new evidence that questions whether people truly have insatiable wants—and argues that economists' reactions to that evidence lay bare the field's deep ideological roots. → cusp.ac.uk/themes/s1/pb... cc #postgrowth
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Is modern economics built on a lie? | Guest blog by Paul Bain
In his guest blog for CUSP, Paul Bain describes new evidence that questions whether people have insatiable economic wants, and how economists’ reactions to ...
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Phil Free @philfree.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
#PostCapitalism #Degrowth #PostGrowth #Sufficiency #BeyondGrowth We economists have done the maths: ‘growth’ is a doomed strategy - there is a better way - Oliver De Schutter, Joseph Stiglitz, Jayati Ghosh, Thomas Piketty, Kate Raworth & Jason Hickel www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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We economists have done the maths: ‘growth’ is a doomed strategy – there is a better way | Olivier De Schutter and others
Our roadmap has been shaped by experts across the world. We call on political leaders at all levels to use it, says Olivier De Schutter and others
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CUSP //: Post Growth Research Centre @cusp.ac.uk · 01/06/2026
The cost of data centres—New FoE Ireland report by CUSP fellow @seanfearon.bsky.social models how the growing data centre demand on the Irish electricity grid is pushing up electricity prices for households across the state. → cusp.ac.uk/themes/aetw/... cc #postgrowth #energy
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The Cost of Data Centres | FoE Ireland report by Seán Fearon
Commissioned by Beyond Fossil Fuels and Friends of the Earth Ireland, a new report by CUSP research fellow Seán Fearon models how the constant, inflexible, ...
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CUSP //: Post Growth Research Centre @cusp.ac.uk · 30/03/2026
From Growth to Care // @timjackson.org.uk and Jen Morgan at @gowerst-books.bsky.social —asking what prosperity really means when we move beyond growth and violence, and put care at the centre of the economy. ▶️ cusp.ac.uk/themes/healt... __ cc #TheCareEconomy #ProsperityAsHealth #PostGrowth #Degrowth
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From Growth to Care—Tim Jackson in conversation with Jen Morgan | London 18 Mar 2026
Jen Morgan from the NHS Confederation's Q Community talks with Prof Tim Jackson about his book The Care Economy. They explore what prosperity really me ...
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CUSP //: Post Growth Research Centre @cusp.ac.uk · 09/06/2026
What Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations can teach us about today’s failed energy transitions—Blog by @simonmair.bsky.social → cusp.ac.uk/themes/aetw/... cc #postgrowth #degrowth #capitalism #EnergyTransition #PoliticalEconomy
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What Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations can teach us about today’s failed energy transitions | Blog by Simon Mair
Despite three decades of COP climate talks and a boom in renewables, global emissions continue to rise. In this blog, CUSP researcher Simon Mair shows how A ...
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Department of Psychology, University of Bath @psychologybath.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
New blog for the CUSP | Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity written by our very own Paul Bain. In this blog, he discusses new evidence that questions whether people truly have insatiable wants. You can read the article here: cusp.ac.uk/themes/s1/pb...
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Is modern economics built on a lie? | Guest blog by Paul Bain
In a guest post for CUSP, Paul Bain describes new evidence that questions whether people truly have insatiable wants—and argues that economists' reacti ...
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CUSP //: Post Growth Research Centre @cusp.ac.uk · 08/06/2026
New CUSP research identifies how to make #postgrowth work globally: financial transfers from North to South + international cooperation. The PADME model shows this prevents debt, inflation & unemployment in the South. → cusp.ac.uk/themes/aetw/... #Postgrowth #Degrowth #GlobalJustice
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Post-growth and the North-South divide: A stock-flow consistent scenario analysis | Journal paper
An unregulated post-growth transition in the North can cause crises in the South: debt, inflation, unemployment. That's the finding of a new paper by D ...
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CUSP //: Post Growth Research Centre @cusp.ac.uk · 01/06/2026
The cost of data centres—New FoE Ireland report by CUSP fellow @seanfearon.bsky.social models how the growing data centre demand on the Irish electricity grid is pushing up electricity prices for households across the state. → cusp.ac.uk/themes/aetw/... cc #postgrowth #energy
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The Cost of Data Centres | FoE Ireland report by Seán Fearon
Commissioned by Beyond Fossil Fuels and Friends of the Earth Ireland, a new report by CUSP research fellow Seán Fearon models how the constant, inflexible, ...
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 28/05/2026
‘Hidden datacentre tax’ costing Irish households millions, report says
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‘Hidden datacentre tax’ costing Irish households millions, report says
Datacentres used 22% of country’s electricity last year, pushing up household bills, study suggests Energy demand by datacentres in Ireland has added hundreds of euros to household electricity bills in a pattern that could be replicated across Europe, according to a report. Ireland’s growing number of datacentres last year used 22% of the country’s electricity, more than all urban homes combined, according to the Central Statistics Office. The equivalent figure in the US and UK is 6%. Continue reading...
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CUSP //: Post Growth Research Centre @cusp.ac.uk · 13/04/2026
Late capitalism's dangerous endgame has a body count. The obsession with growth at all costs is failing us. In his piece for @iai.tv, @timjackson.org.uk points to another economy that views #ProsperityAsHealth + #EconomyAsCare. Full article via → iai.tv/articles/our... cc #TheCareEconomy #PostGrowth
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Our economic system is designed to make us unhappy
<p><em>For decades, we have conflated national success with wealth, using GDP as the ultimate benchmark. But as geopolitical crises mount—from US interventions over oil to intensifying global competit...
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CUSP //: Post Growth Research Centre @cusp.ac.uk · 26/05/2026
Sufficiency and care: a conversation between @timjackson.org.uk, Halliki Kreinin and Jonas Ludwig about organising principles for sustainability research and action in times of geopolitical crises. → cusp.ac.uk/themes/healt... cc #TheCareEconomy #ProsperityAsHealth #PostGrowth #Degrowth #Sufficiency
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Sufficiency and care: a conversation about organising principles in times of crisis | Journal article
What does prosperity really mean? For CUSP co-director Prof Tim Jackson, the answer lies not in wealth but in health—and in the principle of care. In a rece ...
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Gerrit Stegehuis @gerritstegehuis.eurosky.social · 28/05/2026
Economieboeken zijn opgebouwd rond het begrip schaarste: die bestaat omdat mensen onbeperkte wensen hebben in een wereld met beperkte hulpbronnen. Paul Bain ging het eens na, en zag dat het meer ideologie dan realiteit is: het 'bewijs' dat mensen onverzadigbare wensen hebben deugt van geen kant.
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Michael Burchert @michaelburchert.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
"Despite strong statements that economic wants are insatiable, the same texts are embarrassingly silent when it comes to evidence."
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CUSP //: Post Growth Research Centre @cusp.ac.uk · 28/05/2026
Is modern economics built on a lie?—In a guest post for CUSP, Paul Bain describes new evidence that questions whether people truly have insatiable wants—and argues that economists' reactions to that evidence lay bare the field's deep ideological roots. → cusp.ac.uk/themes/s1/pb... cc #postgrowth
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Is modern economics built on a lie? | Guest blog by Paul Bain
In his guest blog for CUSP, Paul Bain describes new evidence that questions whether people have insatiable economic wants, and how economists’ reactions to ...
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CUSP //: Post Growth Research Centre @cusp.ac.uk · 26/05/2026
Sufficiency and care: a conversation between @timjackson.org.uk, Halliki Kreinin and Jonas Ludwig about organising principles for sustainability research and action in times of geopolitical crises. → cusp.ac.uk/themes/healt... cc #TheCareEconomy #ProsperityAsHealth #PostGrowth #Degrowth #Sufficiency
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Sufficiency and care: a conversation about organising principles in times of crisis | Journal article
What does prosperity really mean? For CUSP co-director Prof Tim Jackson, the answer lies not in wealth but in health—and in the principle of care. In a rece ...
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The Sociological Review Foundation @thesociologicalreview.org · 24/04/2026
“Prosperity is not about wealth, it’s about health. Care, in all its forms, underpins a vibrant life. Yet in today’s economy, it is undervalued, underpaid and often overlooked.” Briony Lipton on The Care Economy by @timjackson.org.uk @politybooks.bsky.social buff.ly/PMV4tub
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CUSP //: Post Growth Research Centre @cusp.ac.uk · 13/04/2026
Late capitalism's dangerous endgame has a body count. The obsession with growth at all costs is failing us. In his piece for @iai.tv, @timjackson.org.uk points to another economy that views #ProsperityAsHealth + #EconomyAsCare. Full article via → iai.tv/articles/our... cc #TheCareEconomy #PostGrowth
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Our economic system is designed to make us unhappy
<p><em>For decades, we have conflated national success with wealth, using GDP as the ultimate benchmark. But as geopolitical crises mount—from US interventions over oil to intensifying global competit...
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Institute of Art and Ideas @iai.tv · 09/04/2026
"'Growth, growth, growth' is the most persistent political mantra of the post-war era," writes Ecological economist Tim Jackson. | bit.ly/4curBVv Tap the link to read more about why growth-at-all-costs capitalism really runs on disappointment.
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enlighten @enlightenscot.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
"Despite decades of stated commitment to prevention, early intervention and person-centred care, outcomes have not kept pace with ambition" @timjackson.org.uk @cusp.ac.uk for #NHS2048. Read the policy summary: www.enlighten.scot/nhs2048/pros... And the full working paper cusp.ac.uk/themes/healt...
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CUSP //: Post Growth Research Centre @cusp.ac.uk · 30/03/2026
From Growth to Care // @timjackson.org.uk and Jen Morgan at @gowerst-books.bsky.social —asking what prosperity really means when we move beyond growth and violence, and put care at the centre of the economy. ▶️ cusp.ac.uk/themes/healt... __ cc #TheCareEconomy #ProsperityAsHealth #PostGrowth #Degrowth
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From Growth to Care—Tim Jackson in conversation with Jen Morgan | London 18 Mar 2026
Jen Morgan from the NHS Confederation's Q Community talks with Prof Tim Jackson about his book The Care Economy. They explore what prosperity really me ...
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CUSP //: Post Growth Research Centre @cusp.ac.uk · 06/03/2026
"His team talked about growth being the centre of everything, the core of every department’s mission. They went for wealth, not health." cc @timjackson.org.uk #TheCareEconomy #PostGrowth #ProsperityAsHealth
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CUSP //: Post Growth Research Centre @cusp.ac.uk · 02/03/2026
If we wouldn’t measure our health using just one indicator, why do we measure economic success that way? — @timjackson.org.uk on BBC Sunday Morning Live cc #BeyondGDP #PlanetaryBoundaries #PostGrowth #Degrowth #ProsperityAshealth #WellbeingEconomy #DoughnutEconomics
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CUSP //: Post Growth Research Centre @cusp.ac.uk · 03/03/2026
The care economy and social housing | LSE evening event with Anne Power, Tim Jackson and Jonathon Porritt | 🗓️Today, 3 March, 7pm. Details and registration → www.lse.ac.uk/events/3-mar... cc #Postgrowth #TheCareEconomy #WellbeingEconomy #SocialHousing
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Mike Berners-Lee @mikebernerslee.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Very nice metaphor from @timjackson.org.uk on the madness of GDP as the single metric of economic success
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CUSP //: Post Growth Research Centre @cusp.ac.uk · 02/03/2026
If we wouldn’t measure our health using just one indicator, why do we measure economic success that way? — @timjackson.org.uk on BBC Sunday Morning Live cc #BeyondGDP #PlanetaryBoundaries #PostGrowth #Degrowth #ProsperityAshealth #WellbeingEconomy #DoughnutEconomics
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CUSP //: Post Growth Research Centre @cusp.ac.uk · 02/03/2026
Does economic growth harm the planet? | BBC Sunday Morning Live debate with @timjackson.org.uk, Daze Aghaji and Andy Mayer → cusp.ac.uk/themes/aetw/... cc #BeyondGDP #PlanetaryBoundaries #PostGrowth #Degrowth #ProsperityAshealth #WellbeingEconomy #DoughnutEconomics @doughnuteconomics.bsky.social
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Does economic growth harm the planet? | BBC Sunday Morning Live debate with Tim Jackson, Daze Aghaji and Andy Mayer
CUSP Director Tim Jackson joined BBC One’s Sunday Morning Live for a live debate on whether economic growth harms the planet, following renewed internationa ...
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The Sociological Review Foundation @thesociologicalreview.org · 19/02/2026
“Prosperity is not about wealth, it’s about health. Care, in all its forms, underpins a vibrant life. Yet in today’s economy, it is undervalued, underpaid and often overlooked.” Briony Lipton on The Care Economy by @timjackson.org.uk @politybooks.bsky.social buff.ly/PMV4tub
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CUSP //: Post Growth Research Centre @cusp.ac.uk · 10/02/2026
Growth has a near mythical status in the affections of economists + politicians. But wishful thinking won’t solve the climate crisis. #Postgrowth economics is not about returning to the cave but about breaking free from our intellectual prisons.—@timjackson.org.uk www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Economic growth is still heating the planet. Is there any way out?
Rising GDP continues to mean more carbon emissions and wider damage to the planet. Can the two be decoupled?
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Phil Free @philfree.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
“The myth of growth leads at best to what Herman Daly once called ‘uneconomic growth’. At worst it destroys lives & destabilises society. As Ralf Waldo Emerson argued [150yrs ago, the] greatest wealth is health; without health there is no wealth.” #PostGrowth #Degrowth www.bmj.com/content/392/...
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Prosperity as health: Why we need an economy of care for a liveable future
Climate breakdown can be understood as a profound abdication of care: a collective failure to maintain and protect the conditions of life. Addressing that failure will take more than clever technology...
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Inequality News @inequalitynews.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
📢 THIS ➡️ “Post-growth economics offers us more choice, more realism and more insight into the possibilities for human prosperity. It’s not about returning to the cave but about breaking free from our intellectual prisons.” (Prof. Tim Jackson). www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Economic growth is still heating the planet. Is there any way out?
Rising GDP continues to mean more carbon emissions and wider damage to the planet. Can the two be decoupled?
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CUSP //: Post Growth Research Centre @cusp.ac.uk · 09/02/2026
La croissance vous rend malheureux... mais comment s'en passer? | @timjackson.org.uk on Élucid.Media → www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFLO... cc #PostGrowth #Degrowth #PostCroissance #Decroissance #WellbeingEconomy #ProsperiteSansCroissance #TheCareEconomy
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Food, Farming and Countryside Commission @ffc-commission.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
He points to our report ‘The False Economy of Big Food’ where @timjackson.org.uk found unhealthy food costs us £268bn a year when you account for cost to the NHS, welfare support, social care, lost productivity and human cost 👉 ffcc.co.uk/publications...
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The False Economy of Big Food
And the case for a new food economy
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Annie Leymarie @annieleymarie.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
@timjackson.org.uk: “Economic growth has a near mythical status in the affections of economists and politicians. But wishful thinking won’t solve the climate crisis.” Peter Victor: "The physical scale of the economy must be reduced to avoid further degradation of life-supporting planetary systems.”
Graph of CO2 emissions/Global GDP per capitaGraph of living standards linked to environmental harm in various countries
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Waterstones Gower Street @gowerst-books.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Join us next month for an interesting discussion about 'The Care Economy' with @timjackson.org.uk details can be found on our events page. @cusp.ac.uk
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Phil Free @philfree.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
“Because capitalism wants endless growth, it is constantly seeking out new ways for us to consume. Adverts support the expansion of markets into new areas of life. Reclaim adverts, escape growth.” #PostCapitalism #Degrowth #PostGrowth - @cusp.ac.uk cusp.ac.uk/themes/s1/bl...
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From Consumerism to Community: Transforming the Impact of Advertising | Blog by Simon Mair
Simon Mair reflects on the commodification of life itself through advertising that is focused on consumerism and economic growth. He explores sustainable al ...
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CUSP //: Post Growth Research Centre @cusp.ac.uk · 19/01/2026
Londa School of Economics, not the LSE you are thinking about: Why new economic thinking can—and must—begin at the margins | New blog by Dario Leoni → cusp.ac.uk/themes/aetw/... cc #Postgrowth #Degrowth #TheCareEconomy #WellbeingEconomy #BeyondGrowth
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Why New Economic Thinking Can—and Must—Begin at the Margins | Blog by Dario Leoni
This post introduces A New Economic Grammar from the Inner Areas, the first working paper of the Londa School of Economics, rethinking economics from rural ...
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