‘Empowering and elegiac’ Yanis Varoufakis, author of Another Now ‘Utterly inspiring’ Caroline Lucas, MP, Green Party ‘A masterpiece of measured rage and love’ Jonathan Porritt, author of Hope in Hell Capitalism is broken. The relentless pursuit of more has delivered climate catastrophe, social inequality and financial instability – and left us ill-prepared for life in a global pandemic. Tim Jackson’s passionate and provocative book dares us to imagine a world beyond capitalism – a place where relationship and meaning take precedence over profits and power. Post Growth is both a manifesto for system change and an invitation to rekindle a deeper conversation about the nature of the human condition.
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Tim Jackson. Post Growth
CONTENTS
Guide
List of Illustrations
Pages
Praise for Post Growth
Post Growth. Life after Capitalism
Dedication
Prologue
Notes
1 The Myth of Growth
Myth matters
A little macroeconomics
Backstory
‘Everything is not fine’
The stationary state
The journey of this book
‘Too much and for too long’
Notes
2 Who Killed Capitalism?
Is growth an illusion?
Crime scene investigation
Fargonomics
Serious money
Too big to fail
Moses and the prophets
A little more macroeconomics
Dead on arrival?
Notes
3 The Limited and the Limitless
The road to Dublin
Prophets of despair?
Through the looking-glass
Latham’s bazaar
The faire chain of love
The Southern Ocean
Shooting the bridge
The affluence of limits
Notes
4 The Nature of Prosperity
The ‘calculus’ of happiness
Who’s happy now?
The limits of rationalism
The good life
Stay healthy
Prosperity as health
Trailing clouds of glory
What remains behind
Notes
5 Of Love and Entropy
Counting calories
Out of balance
Take back control
Order out of chaos
‘A microscopic mist’
Staying in the game
Can’t Buy Me Love
Leaving the game
Notes
6 Economics as Storytelling
The power of metaphor
The glittering prize
The limits of competition
Gaia is a tough bitch
Virtuous metaphor
Bear necessities
The inner game
Virtuous flow
Makers of poems
Notes
7 The Return to Work
Life on the frontline
Labour’s love lost
Love and Saint Augustine
The rewards of flow
Bullshit jobs
The robots are coming
The work of art
The life of the mind
Notes
8 A Canopy of Hope
The mother of all virtues
The worm at the core
Foresters with no diploma
Investment as commitment
The casino economy
The return to prudence?
Jubilee
Notes
9 The Art of Power
System change
The will to power
The lotus of compassion
The seeds of disobedience
A nightmare spectacular
A fatal conceit
Constant craving
The way home
Notes
10 Dolphins in Venice
The thing with feathers
Buried treasure
Lockdown crazy
Pain which cannot forget
Let freedom ring
Ghosts in the mirror
Enough
Notes
Acknowledgements
References
Index. A
B
C
D
E
F
G
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‘With great sensitivity and wonderful insight, Tim Jackson shows us that there is life after the growth imperative – and it’s a richer, more humane form of life. With its blend of science, history and biographical detail, Post Growth was a delight to read and gave me much to think about.’
Svend Brinkmann – Author of The Joy of Missing Out
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Rowan Williams – 104th Archbishop of Canterbury
‘At a time when the oligarchy is striving to greenwash its ecocidal ways, Jackson’s empowering and elegiac new book takes the real fight to them, elegantly but forcefully: to flourish on a living planet, humanity must plan for life after capitalism. Not only a must-read but also a highly enjoyable one!’
