🌀 Is medicine a healing or a dealing profession?—When profit drives treatment, care becomes a collateral |
@ProfTimJackson | 📚 #TheCareEconomy

🔗 https://www.youtube.com/shorts/MbDWEZUpQ3E

For details about the book, please see → https://timjackson.org.uk/the-care-economy/
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"Care is a principle, not just a sub-sector of the economy, not something that we wave around to try and claim the moral high ground for, but a principle. And the basis of that principle is restorative."—@ProfTimJackson
➡️ https://youtube.com/shorts/xhTTaKf-rRY
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On Tues 18 March, we hosted a pre-release launch event for #TheCareEconomy at the London Review Bookshop. Author @ProfTimJackson was joined by Sir Sam Everington, Sir Michael Dixon and Zoe Williams for a rich and wide-ranging discussion. Full video via ▶️ https://cusp.ac.uk/themes/aetw/lrb2025/

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#Postwachstum #Omgroei #Decroissance #Decrecimiento #SystemChange #BigFood #BigPharma

Confronting the Dilemma of Growth—New commentary by @ProfTimJackson, #JasonHickel and #GiorgosKallis responding to misconceptions in #EcologicalEconomics. → https://cusp.ac.uk/themes/aetw/tj-commentary-limits-to-degrowth/

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The False Economy of #BigFood — And the case for a new #FoodEconomy. New report for the UK Food, Farming & Countryside Commission by @ProfTimJackson → https://ffcc.co.uk/publications/the-false-economy-of-big-food

The demise of God left open the question of meaning, the function of theodicy, in the modern world. Here, @ProfTimJackson argues that some part of this function has become internalised within consumerism itself. → https://cusp.ac.uk/themes/aetw/blog_tj_consumerism_as_theodicy/ #postgrowth #degrowth cc #BlackFriday #BlockFriday #BuyNothingDay #Consumerism

When politicians tell us to focus on growth we need to ask: ‘Why, and for whom?’—Rowan Williams, patron of the CUSP 𝘕𝘢𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘗𝘳𝘰𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘋𝘪𝘢𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘶𝘦, in #TheGuardian → https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/08/growth-politics-public-good-society-rowan-williams

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“No political mantra, no tech-bro fantasy, no alluring macroeconomic ideology has stemmed the persistent decline of #EconomicGrowth. Let alone reversed it. To all intents and purposes, we are already living in a #postgrowth world…It may seem unthinkable, but what we need is a chancellor who is prepared to declare that the emperor is naked. That the god of growth is no longer listening to our prayers.”—@ProfTimJackson for
The New Statesman
→ https://www.newstatesman.com/spotlight/economic-growth/2025/03/calling-for-growth-is-not-the-same-as-delivering-it #SpringBudget #TheCareEconomy

While Keir Starmer was busy outlining his pro-growth agenda in Manchester, down the road, there was a gathering of activists, academics and social entrepreneurs cooking up a post-growth vision for food and real prosperity.

I was privileged to be in the company of some great people today with inspiring presentations and even a chance to play with modelling clay and chalk!

Thanks to @cusp_uk for hosting a valuable meeting of like minds today.

#CUSP #doughnuteconomics #degrowth #postgrowth

@annaf @cusp_uk that’s a good point but the strange thing is because they’re majority owned by the NZ government Air NZ have the potential to be almost any company they want and to have any company structure they want or that would work - including prioritising social aims over profit and pursuing ambitious sustainability goals. But that then becomes a political decision. And depends on the NZ government taking a proactive stance in things.

Great piece by @ProfTimJackson in The Guardian:

"Without health there is no wealth. Without care there is no health. Care is investment. It’s not a luxury consumer item. It’s the most fundamental investment of all".

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jan/16/invest-britain-economy-spend-nhs

"Shouldn’t there be some return to #society from the creation of #wealth? Given that a lot of the wealth is actually built on public money?"—@ProfTimJackson on BBC World Service Weekend last Sunday with Paul Henley, Lijia Zhang, and Phil White. ⁠
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Listen to the programme via → ▶️ https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w172ykwvlqxtc7n
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Interesting interview with @ProfTimJackson on Kim Hill about his book Post Growth Life after #Capitalism.
I think I’ll track down a copy, maybe from library or I could, of course, order it from Amazon 😂 #degrowth #climate #inequality

"Our prevailing vision of social progress is fatally dependent on a false promise, that there will always be more and more for everyone."
Check out this interview with @ProfTimJackson
https://www.rnz.co.nz/audio/player?audio_id=2018875451
#degrowth #economics

Does the 'rich world' have to get 'poorer' in order to allow the 'poor world' to get 'richer'?—@ProfTimJackson joining Amol Rajan, Graihagh Jackson, Bernice Lee, Najma Mohamed and Rhian-Mari Thomas on the BBC Radio 4 #RethinkClimate programme to discuss money, prosperity and the #GreenEconomy.

Listen to the full episode ▶️ https://cusp.ac.uk/themes/aetw/tj-bbcradio4-rethink/

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An excellent article by @ProfTimJackson - What’s the best way to grow Britain’s economy? Spend more on the NHS

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jan/16/invest-britain-economy-spend-nhs?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

A #WellbeingEconomy is possible.

Lovely new feature video by the Wellbeing Economy Alliance (WEAll). → https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8no2wZLKHc
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"Without health there is no wealth. Without care there is no health. Care is investment. It’s not a luxury consumer item. It’s the most fundamental investment of all."—@ProfTimJackson for The Guardian → https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jan/16/invest-britain-economy-spend-nhs

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Degrowth can work—Here's how science can help | New #Nature comments piece by Jason Hickel, Giorgos Kallis, @ProfTimJackson, Dan O’Neill, Juliet Schor, @jks, Peter Victor and Diana Ürge-Vorsatz →
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-04412-x

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"Wealthy economies should abandon growth of gross domestic product (GDP) as a goal, scale down destructive and unnecessary forms of production to reduce energy and material use, and focus economic activity around securing human needs and well-being."
It's time for #degrowth.
@cusp_uk @ProfTimJackson @jks @jasonhickel
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-04412-x