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Archive
Please note that this is an archive page. For current projects, please visit cusp.ac.uk or timjackson.org.uk
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Prosperity and
Sustainability in the Green Economy
Towards a sustainable prosperity
Tim Jackson
February 18, 2016
In the first blog of the new series by the Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity, CUSP director Prof Tim Jackson explores the nature of prosperity and the challenge of achieving sustainable prosperity, introducing the CUSP work programme.
Tim Jackson
February 18, 2016
To coincide with the launch of a new All Party Parliamentary Group on Limits to Growth, Tim Jackson discusses the continuing relevance of the Club of Rome’s groundbreaking report in today’s context and introduces Limits Revisited, a new review of the debate, co-written with environmental writer Robin Webster.
Beyond GDP: Bhutan’s search for an alternative development approach
Guest blog by Fergus Lyon
December 04, 2015
If looking for alternative measures of prosperity, the concept of Gross National Happiness being explored by Bhutan offers some intriguing insights. This small Himalayan state has hosted a conference on the subject of Gross National Happiness, drawing practitioners, policy makers and academics exploring happiness and wellbeing [...]
Materiality and spiritually in Marx, Darwin and Malthus
Tim Jackson
October 27, 2015
Materiality and spiritually in Marx, Darwin and Malthus :: I am not quite sure why discussions about Marx elicit such eloquence, but they invariably do. Perhaps it is because, at its best, Marx’s own writing had the same quality. At any rate, John Bellamy Foster’s excellent essay, along with the ensuing discussion, has been no [...]
ESRC blog: The case for sustainable prosperity
Tim Jackson
August 16, 2015
ESRC blog: The case for sustainable prosperity :: Why did you pursue an academic career? I am an ‘accidental academic’, starting my professional life working on a voluntary (and then freelance) basis doing research for environmental organisations like Friends of the Earth and Greenpeace, places where sustainability issues were being taken most seriously. At an [...]
If the rich world aimed for minimal growth, would it be a disaster or a blessing?
Tim Jackson
August 01, 2015
The case for slower growth. If the rich world aimed for minimal growth, would it be a disaster or a blessing? “ANYONE who believes that exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist,” remarked (the economist) Kenneth Boulding. John Stuart Mill devoted an entire chapter of [...]
Growth is not the answer to inequality
Tim Jackson
March 15, 2015
Growth is not the answer to inequality :: Wouldn’t it be wonderful if our politicians focused on things that matter, like the kind of society we want to live in, instead of squabbling over TV debates and “empty chairs”? Why couldn’t they be a bit more like actor Michael Sheen, for instance, whose barnstorming defence [...]
New economic model needed not relentless consumer demand
Tim Jackson
January 17, 2013
New economic model needed not relentless consumer demands :: It's four years since my book, Prosperity without Growth, first appeared in English but the world already seems like a different place. One of the most obvious differences is that the conventional vision of social progress as a paradise of endless growth has come under increasing [...]
Tim Jackson
June 25, 2015
Economics for a full world :: I remember vividly the first time I came across Herman Daly’s work. It was in a crowded upstairs meeting room in London sometime in 1989 during a presentation on the relative costs of different carbon abatement options. Among the slides on display—acetates and overhead projectors in those days—was one [...]
The dilemma of growth: prosperity vs economic expansion
Tim Jackson
September 23, 2014
The dilemma of growth: prosperity vs economic expansion :: Rethinking prosperity is a vital task because our prevailing vision of the good life – and the economics intended to deliver it – have both come badly unstuck. Financial markets are unstable; inequality is rising; and despite the 500,000 or so people who took to the [...]
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