Prosperity and

Sustainability in the Green Economy

ECONOMY OF SUFFICIENCY

Tim Jackson contributes to new publication of the Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy

 

 

With his think piece Angst essen Seele auf — Escaping the ‘iron cage’ of consumerism, Tim Jackson adds to an eclectic set of essays by co-contributing authors such as Vandana Shiva, Ashok Khosla and Richard B. Norgaard.

 

Published in honour of Wolfgand Sachs, and drawing on a symposium held in May 2012, Wuppertal Spezial 48 takes the reader through various discourses of sustainable development and illustrates the evolution of ideas around the sufficiency economy:

 

1 Wealth in diversity

Ashok Khosla: Beyond Rio: from green economy to green society

Marianne Gronemeyer: Über das Aufhören – Entwicklung ohne Wachstum

Vandana Shiva: Seeds of Soil – Towards a living economy

 

2 Enjoyable limits

Richard B. Norgaard: Escaping Economism, Escaping the Econocene

Tim Jackson: “Angst essen Seele auf” – Escaping the ‘iron cage’ of consumerism

3 Creating commons

Ezio Manzini: Resilient systems and cosmopolitan localism – The emerging scenario of the small, local, open and connected space

Silke Helfrich: Commons fallen nicht vom Himmel – Fünf Commons-Thesen

 

For more information on the Wuppertal Institute, please visit their website. The publication is free for download and can be read here.