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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.
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CUSP //: Post Growth Research Centre @cusp.ac.uk · May 30
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
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Monetary Policy for a Just Macrofinancial Regime—CUSP partnering in new P4NE-funded project exploring how central banks can adapt monetary policy to support a green and just economic transition. → cusp.ac.uk/themes/finan...
Monetary Policy for a Just Macrofinancial Regime—CUSP partnering in new P4NE-funded project
Researchers from the CUSP at the University of Surrey have secured funding from the Partners for a New Economy (P4NE) foundation for a new two-year research ...
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November 17, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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The Quest for Prosperity | @timjackson.org.uk’s Foreword for @maitrereynard.bsky.social’s new book The Meaning of Growth: Anti-Environmentalist Rhetoric and the Defence of Modernity. → cusp.ac.uk/themes/aetw/...

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The Quest for Prosperity | Tim Jackson's Foreword to Richard Douglas' new book The Meaning of Growth
This is an amended version of Tim Jackson's Foreword for Richard McNeill Douglas' new book The Meaning of Growth—Anti-Environmentalist Rhetoric an ...
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November 12, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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Food shapes our health, environment, and economy—yet the UK food system currently drives illness + environmental harm. It doesn’t have to. CUSP researchers helped identify 27 practical actions to make food fairer, greener, and more resilient. → cusp.ac.uk/themes/food/... #TUKFS
Action to Transform the UK Food Systems: innovations for an alternative | Blog by Fergus Lyon
The UK food system faces rising health and environmental costs. Evidence from the TUKFS Programme outlines systemic changes for a sustainable future. In thi ...
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November 11, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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It's Politics, Captain—But Not As We Know It → thealternative.org.uk/dailyalterna... HT #TheAlternative @thealternative.global
Alternative Editorial: It's Politics, Captain - But Not As We Know It — THE ALTERNATIVE
Since our last editorial there has been an ‘energetic shift’ in the party-political world. Zohran Mamdani’s victory against Andrew Cuomo to become Mayor of New York, marks  the end of a political...
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November 11, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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The Care Economy: Redefining Prosperity in a World Beyond Growth | @economicresearch.bsky.social seminar with @timjackson.org.uk | Online, 🗓️ 24 Nov, 7-8pm GMT → www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-care-e...
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The Care Economy: Redefining Prosperity in a World Beyond Growth
Join Tim Jackson to explore how care can form the foundation of a humane, sustainable economy.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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Why care is the foundation of a thriving society – #Mindvalley Book Club with @timjackson.org.uk and Kristina Mänd-Lakhiani. → cusp.ac.uk/themes/aetw/...
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Why care is the foundation of a thriving society | Mindvalley Book Club with Tim Jackson
Kristina Mänd-Lakhiani speaks with Tim to discuss why modern economics overlooks care work, how the pandemic exposed the real foundations of society, and wh ...
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November 4, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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Learning to walk lightly through the world | New journal paper
by Patrick Elf, James Ferreira Moura Jr and Amanda Kumaruara, calling for rapid unlearning of harmful modern practices by learning from Indigenous teachings—toward a decolonised, caring, & sustainable future.→ cusp.ac.uk/themes/natur...
Learning to walk lightly through the world: Lessons from Amazonian Indigenous praxis | Journal paper
New paper by Patrick Elf, James Ferreira Moura Junior and Amanda Kumaruara, calling for rapid unlearning of harmful modern practices by learning from Indige ...
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October 23, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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Video: A World That Cares—Building an economy that values care | How the Light Gets In Festival with @timjackson.org.uk and Catherine Liu → cusp.ac.uk/themes/m/tj-... HT @iai.tv

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Video: A World That Cares | How the Light Gets In Festival with Tim Jackson and Catherine Liu
The pursuit of productivity often sidelines the essential work of care—whether for children, the sick, or the elderly. Catherine Liu, Tim Jackson, and David ...
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October 6, 2025 at 9:55 AM
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In his new blog, CUSP researcher @maitrereynard.bsky.social explores the spiritual roots of political climate denial and society’s attachment to growth—and how defending growth has become a defence of modernity itself. → cusp.ac.uk/themes/m/blo...
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Climate denial and the defence of modernity | Blog by Richard McNeill Douglas
What we are lacking is an inspiring vision of our lives, collective futures, and spiritual reality in a world in which we cannot keep growing forever. As mu ...
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October 21, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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#RoutledgeRevisited

Prosperity Without Growth
@timjackson.org.uk

"Cuts through the intellectual clamour with clarity, courage & hope" @naomiaklein.bsky.social
"Essential reading for those refusing to succumb to a dystopic future" @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social

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Front cover of the book, "Prosperity Without Growth"
October 9, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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🧩 Re-imagining a New Economy that works for people and the planet—If you missed today’s workshop exploring the new report by Ben Kellard et al., there’s another chance to join the discussion tomorrow: 🗓️7 Oct, 5 pm (BST).

🔗 Details and registration → cusp.ac.uk/themes/aetw/... cc #WellbeingEconomy
Re-imagining a New Economy | Webinar with Ben Kellard et al, 6/7 Oct 2025
To accompany the new working paper 'Re-imagining a New Economy' by Ben Kellard et al, and to foster further discussion, we are offering an online ...
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October 6, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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Video: A World That Cares—Building an economy that values care | How the Light Gets In Festival with @timjackson.org.uk and Catherine Liu → cusp.ac.uk/themes/m/tj-... HT @iai.tv

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Video: A World That Cares | How the Light Gets In Festival with Tim Jackson and Catherine Liu
The pursuit of productivity often sidelines the essential work of care—whether for children, the sick, or the elderly. Catherine Liu, Tim Jackson, and David ...
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October 6, 2025 at 9:55 AM
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"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

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June 8, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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New book 📚 // In #TheMeaningOfGrowth, CUSP researcher @maitrereynard.bsky.social investigates the roots of political resistance to environmental science and policy in Western societies, and suggests a new approach to overcoming it.
With a foreword by @timjackson.org.uk →
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The Meaning of Growth—Anti-Environmentalist Rhetoric and the Defence of Modernity | Book by Richard Douglas
In this book, Richard Douglas uncovers the cultural roots of resistance to environmental action. Through a close reading of anti-environmentalist rhetoric, ...
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September 30, 2025 at 8:23 AM
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Wellbeing feels increasingly out of reach for most people. A new working paper from CUSP featuring contributions from Earth4All collaborators explores why this is, and an alternative economic model that could deliver #wellbeing for all.
Download the paper ⏩ cusp.ac.uk/themes/aetw/...
Re-imagining a new economy that works for all people and the planet | Working Paper
Wellbeing feels out of reach for most people. This paper, written by a range of economists and practitioners in the field of New Economics, explores why thi ...
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September 25, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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For everyone who hasn't listened to the analysis of Tim Jackson on the limits of capitalism, a recording of his talk last night is now online: www.sg.uu.nl/sprekers/tim...
September 24, 2025 at 6:53 AM
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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/...
We Need To Talk About... Cheap Food | Podcast with Tim Jackson and Emily Norton, hosted by Will Evans
Britain’s food is cheap, but farmers are squeezed and too many people can’t afford a healthy diet. In this podcast, Will Evans, Emily Norton and Tim Jackson ...
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September 17, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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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."
September 17, 2025 at 7:08 AM
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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
A world that cares
We are constantly told to be more productive, more efficient and more successful. This pursuit of individual perfection, however, is taking its toll on our physical and mental well-being. And whilst w...
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September 15, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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🔔🚨 “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
September 11, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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"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
September 10, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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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.
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The Care Economy: Tim Jackson in conversation with Kate Raworth
Join renowned economists Tim Jackson and Kate Raworth at The Conduit for a thought-provoking event asking: what if prosperity were measured in health, not w ...
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September 5, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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📚 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.

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State of the Art | CUSP Newsletter, September 2025
As CUSP turns ten, Tim Jackson highlights the troubling shift in UK research funding away from post-growth inquiry. He argues that questioning growth remains vital in an era of climate crisis, inequal...
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September 9, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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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.

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September 8, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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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...
Tim Jackson on The Care Economy – a meeting for policy advisors, professionals in the public domain, and academics
Utrecht (Universiteitsmuseum), Tuesday 23 September, 10.00-12.00 Care is the foundation of organic life. But its fate in the economy is precarious and uncertain. In our hearts it’s honoured as an irre...
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September 8, 2025 at 12:56 PM