CUSP //: Post Growth Research Centre

"His team talked about growth being the centre of everything, the core of every department’s mission. They went for wealth, not health." cc @timjackson.org.uk #TheCareEconomy #PostGrowth #ProsperityAsHealth

If we wouldn’t measure our health using just one indicator, why do we measure economic success that way? — @timjackson.org.uk on BBC Sunday Morning Live

cc #BeyondGDP #PlanetaryBoundaries #PostGrowth #Degrowth #ProsperityAshealth #WellbeingEconomy #DoughnutEconomics

The care economy and social housing | LSE evening event with Anne Power, Tim Jackson and Jonathon Porritt | 🗓️Today, 3 March, 7pm. Details and registration → www.lse.ac.uk/events/3-mar...

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Very nice metaphor from @timjackson.org.uk on the madness of GDP as the single metric of economic success

If we wouldn’t measure our health using just one indicator, why do we measure economic success that way? — @timjackson.org.uk on BBC Sunday Morning Live

cc #BeyondGDP #PlanetaryBoundaries #PostGrowth #Degrowth #ProsperityAshealth #WellbeingEconomy #DoughnutEconomics

Does economic growth harm the planet? | BBC Sunday Morning Live debate with Tim Jackson, Daze Aghaji and Andy Mayer CUSP Director Tim Jackson joined BBC One’s Sunday Morning Live for a live debate on whether economic growth harms the planet, following renewed internationa ...

Does economic growth harm the planet? | BBC Sunday Morning Live debate with @timjackson.org.uk, Daze Aghaji and Andy Mayer → cusp.ac.uk/themes/aetw/...
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“Prosperity is not about wealth, it’s about health. Care, in all its forms, underpins a vibrant life. Yet in today’s economy, it is undervalued, underpaid and often overlooked.”

Briony Lipton on The Care Economy by @timjackson.org.uk @politybooks.bsky.social

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Economic growth is still heating the planet. Is there any way out? Rising GDP continues to mean more carbon emissions and wider damage to the planet. Can the two be decoupled?

Growth has a near mythical status in the affections of economists + politicians. But wishful thinking won’t solve the climate crisis. #Postgrowth economics is not about returning to the cave but about breaking free from our intellectual prisons.—@timjackson.org.uk
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Prosperity as health: Why we need an economy of care for a liveable future Climate breakdown can be understood as a profound abdication of care: a collective failure to maintain and protect the conditions of life. Addressing that failure will take more than clever technology...

“The myth of growth leads at best to what Herman Daly once called ‘uneconomic growth’. At worst it destroys lives & destabilises society.

As Ralf Waldo Emerson argued [150yrs ago, the] greatest wealth is health; without health there is no wealth.” #PostGrowth #Degrowth
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Economic growth is still heating the planet. Is there any way out? Rising GDP continues to mean more carbon emissions and wider damage to the planet. Can the two be decoupled?

📢 THIS ➡️ “Post-growth economics offers us more choice, more realism and more insight into the possibilities for human prosperity. It’s not about returning to the cave but about breaking free from our intellectual prisons.” (Prof. Tim Jackson). www.theguardian.com/environment/...

La croissance vous rend malheureux... mais comment s'en passer? | @timjackson.org.uk on Élucid.Media → www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFLO...

cc #PostGrowth #Degrowth #PostCroissance #Decroissance #WellbeingEconomy #ProsperiteSansCroissance #TheCareEconomy

The False Economy of Big Food And the case for a new food economy

He points to our report ‘The False Economy of Big Food’ where @timjackson.org.uk found unhealthy food costs us £268bn a year when you account for cost to the NHS, welfare support, social care, lost productivity and human cost 👉 ffcc.co.uk/publications...

@timjackson.org.uk: “Economic growth has a near mythical status in the affections of economists and politicians. But wishful thinking won’t solve the climate crisis.”
Peter Victor: "The physical scale of the economy must be reduced to avoid further degradation of life-supporting planetary systems.”

Join us next month for an interesting discussion about 'The Care Economy' with @timjackson.org.uk details can be found on our events page. @cusp.ac.uk

From Consumerism to Community: Transforming the Impact of Advertising | Blog by Simon Mair Simon Mair reflects on the commodification of life itself through advertising that is focused on consumerism and economic growth. He explores sustainable al ...

“Because capitalism wants endless growth, it is constantly seeking out new ways for us to consume. Adverts support the expansion of markets into new areas of life.

Reclaim adverts, escape growth.” #PostCapitalism #Degrowth #PostGrowth

- @cusp.ac.uk
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Why New Economic Thinking Can—and Must—Begin at the Margins | Blog by Dario Leoni This post introduces A New Economic Grammar from the Inner Areas, the first working paper of the Londa School of Economics, rethinking economics from rural ...

Londa School of Economics, not the LSE you are thinking about: Why new economic thinking can—and must—begin at the margins | New blog by Dario Leoni → cusp.ac.uk/themes/aetw/...

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📚 Latest CUSP Newsletter live now // @timjackson.org.uk reflects on nearly a decade of CUSP research and advocacy, touching on natality, growth, #degrowth, and climate denial—plus new research and activities from across the CUSP community. → share.sender.net/campaigns/dU... cc #postgrowth #beyondGDP

New Year’s resolutions for the climate emergency How do we resolve the great challenges to health and wellbeing? Welcome to a BMJ special issue of resolutions. Our aim is to begin each year with a range of short essays on one of these great challeng...

Honored to be part of @bmj.com New Year’s Resolutions for the #climateemergency issue, kicking off 2026 with an exploration of Kim Stanley Robinson's Ministry for the Future

See @kamranabbasi.bsky.social's editorial & my piece below:

tinyurl.com/4b2efbjj
www.bmj.com/content/392/...

New Year’s resolutions for the climate emergency How do we resolve the great challenges to health and wellbeing? Welcome to a BMJ special issue of resolutions. Our aim is to begin each year with a range of short essays on one of these great challeng...

How do we resolve the great challenges to health and wellbeing? In his Editorial, @kamranabbasi.bsky.social
welcomes the new @bmj.com special issue of resolutions, focusing this year on the climate emergency → bmj.com/content/392/...

#TheCareEconomy #WellbeingEconomy #PostGrowth @timjackson.org.uk

Cry of the Bittern | BBC radio drama series by Tim Jackson re-released as audiobook This month sees the audiobook release of Tim Jackson’s environmental drama series Cry of the Bittern. Originally broadcast on BBC Radio 4, the series has been re-released by Penguin and is now availab...

Just re-released by Penguin Random House: my 30-part ‘environmental thriller’ Cry of the Bittern was originally broadcast as a 30 part serial on BBC Radio 4 and is now available on all major audio streaming platforms.
Happy new listening! ➡️ timjackson.org.uk/cry-of-the-b... cc #CryOfTheBittern

Prosperity as health: Why we need an economy of care for a liveable future | BMJ article by Tim Jackson Climate breakdown should be understood as a profound abdication of care, argues CUSP co-Director Tim Jackson in an opinion piece commissioned for the Britis ...

Climate breakdown is a profound abdication of care, argues @timjackson.org.uk in his new @bmj.com opinion piece. Addressing it takes more than tech fixes—it means reimagining the purpose of the economy.
➡️ cusp.ac.uk/themes/aetw/...
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How can farmers and food workers care? Dr Charlie Taverner on how food work is valued and what farmers and delivery drivers have in common with nurses and doctor.

New blog: How can farmers and food workers care?

FFCC's Dr Charlie Taverner on how food work is valued and what farmers and delivery drivers have in common with nurses and doctors.

Read it here: ffcc.co.uk/conversation...

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Can we really have green growth? | Comment by Simon Mair Has economic growth really been decoupled from climate damage? In this blog, Simon Mair examines recent claims from the Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit ...

In a blog post for @cusp.ac.uk I argue that countries are not decoupling fast enough and that growth remains a barrier to genuine progress on carbon emissions. But the increased rate of decoupling should prompt reflections from environmentalists and ecological economists.

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Yesterday, FFCC brought together leaders from across food, farming and land use for a cross-sector discussion on shared priorities and practical routes to action.

The high price of cheap food—who’s counting the cost of our national diet? | By Tim Jackson To accompany the launch of the latest report by the UK’s Food, Farming and Countryside Commission, Prof Tim Jackson explores the hidden costs of our nationa ...

The high price of cheap food—who’s counting the cost of our national diet? // As the new @ffc-commission.bsky.social report launches, @timjackson.org.uk explores the hidden costs of a booming fast-food industry & what it means for our health, communities and environment. → cusp.ac.uk/themes/healt...

Assessing public support for degrowth: survey-based experimental and predictive studies | Journal paper Using representative surveys in the UK and US with over 5,000 participants, a new study by CUSP fellow Dario Krpan and colleagues Fred Basso, Jason Hickel, ...

Assessing public support for degrowth // New study by CUSP fellow @krpd.bsky.social and colleagues finds that—contrary to common political and media claims—the majority of respondents support #degrowth when presented with the full proposal, regardless of the label. → cusp.ac.uk/themes/aetw/...

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 ...

"It was becoming increasingly clear that the allegiance to economic growth is a new religious form. That growth-based consumerism is itself a secular theodicy."

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The classic early retirement story! @will-davies.bsky.social & I wrote about this movement & all its contradictions back in 2020. doi.org/10.1080/1753...

I assume FIRE has been turbocharged post-pandemic, with the combo of job disillusionment & asset appreciation.

Assessing public support for degrowth: survey-based experimental and predictive studies | Journal paper Using representative surveys in the UK and US with over 5,000 participants, a new study by CUSP fellow Dario Krpan and colleagues Fred Basso, Jason Hickel, ...

Assessing public support for degrowth // New study by CUSP fellow @krpd.bsky.social and colleagues finds that—contrary to common political and media claims—the majority of respondents support #degrowth when presented with the full proposal, regardless of the label. → cusp.ac.uk/themes/aetw/...

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 ...

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