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/...

Two of our Advisory Board members will be in conversation *tonight* about the Care Economy 👇 🕖 19.15 CET 💻 online "From the state of our healthcare and planetary systems, to our troubled relationships with patriarchy and profit - why a new economics guided by care is so urgently needed."

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

🔔🚨 “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

"But what happens to our economy when growth itself is increasingly hard to come by? What happens to our politics when we have no policies for a post-growth world? ... And what happens to our science when such questions are deemed to be outside the remit of inquiry?" - @timjackson.org.uk

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. 🎟️ cusp.ac.uk/themes/the-c... #postgrowth #degrowth #WellbeingEconomy

📚 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. ➡️ share.sender.net/campaigns/bI... cc #degrowth

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

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...

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.

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

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. 🎟️ cusp.ac.uk/themes/the-c... #postgrowth #degrowth #WellbeingEconomy

Check out the preprint of our new paper, exploring the time use requirements for a life of wellbeing within planetary boundaries. The bottom line? Lifestyle changes can lower emissions & improve wellbeing, but are insufficient to live well within ecological limits. We need radical system change.

How will we use our time in a #postgrowth future of sustainable wellbeing?—New study by @seanfearon.bsky.social et al models how lifestyle choices to 2050 could shape wellbeing and emissions in Finland, France & UK. ➡️ cusp.ac.uk/themes/s2/sf... cc #Degrowth #WellbeingEconomy #PlanetaryBoundaries

The Care Economy: Tim Jackson in conversation with Kate Raworth cusp.ac.uk/themes/the-c...

ESRC ‘bar against’ degrowth research branded ‘anti-scientific’. Research council leader signals shift against funding projects that question benefits of economic growth. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-r...

🎧 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.

“You call Stokies the Potters. We have got no potteries. We’ve lost our identity. Who are we?” – Sandra, Stoke-on-Trent Kate Burningham and Susan Venn @cusp.ac.uk on nostalgia and the difficulty of imagining a positive future in post-industrial cities. @journals.sagepub.com buff.ly/Wvy2V4U

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

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

“The nostalgia deployed here was fluid, enabling an attachment to the past, but also a reimagining of it into a different future.” Kate Burningham and Susan Venn @cusp.ac.uk on Zygmunt Bauman, nostalgia and visions of the future in Stoke-on-Trent. #OpenAccess @SageJournals buff.ly/Wvy2V4U

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

🌽 🍽️ We’re bringing big ideas and bold questions to Abergavenny Food Festival this year with a conference exploring: “A Fairer Food Future: Can Wales Lead the Way?” 🗓️ Friday 19 September | 10am - 4pm 📍 Abergavenny Food Festival Conference www.abergavennyfoodfestival.com/conference-a...

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

📢 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... #TheCareEconomy #PostGrowth

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/... — cc #postgrowth #degrowth #beyondgrowth #wellbeingeconomy #postgrowthfinance

🫂 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

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/... — cc #postgrowth #degrowth #beyondgrowth #wellbeingeconomy #postgrowthfinance

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... — cc #CircularEconomy #PlasticWaste #SustainableConsumption #PostGrowth

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/...

🎂 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

"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/...

🎂 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» climatica.coop/entrevista-t... #decrecimiento

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. www.pullback.org/episode-note... 🔶

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 → 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... — #TheCareEconomy #CareEconomy #PostGrowth #WellbeingEconomy

Feed: "Episode Notes - Pullback Podcast" 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