Tim Jackson - Post Growth

1 Cover

2 Endorsement

3 Title Page

4 Copyright

5 Dedication

6 Prologue Notes

7 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

8 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

9 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

10 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

11 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

12 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

13 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

14 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

15 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

16 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

17 Acknowledgements

18 References

19 Index

20 End User License Agreement

1 Cover

2 Table of Contents

3 Endorsement

4 Title Page

5 Copyright

6 Dedication

7 Prologue

8 Begin Reading

9 Acknowledgements

10 References

11 Index

12 End User License Agreement

1 Chapter 4 Figure 1Prosperity as health: human functioning in five domains

2 Chapter 6 Figure 2A simplified representation of Schwartz’s ‘Circumplex’ of Human Values

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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

‘Through the window of our pandemic lockdown Jackson sees both the sins of capitalism and the renewal of hope. An instructive and stimulating read!’

Herman Daly – Author of Steady State Economics

‘Tim Jackson’s compelling postgrowth vision strikes at the heart of today’s greatest existential challenge and human predicament: either we continue to propagate a capitalistic growth paradigm that fosters inequality, climate and health crises or we build our lives and livelihoods around a holistic system providing what is truly meaningful.’

Sandrine Dixson-Declève – Co-President, The Club of Rome

‘This book demonstrates that changing the current economic paradigm is not a crazy dream, but a real – and absolutely essential – possibility. For all of us. Right now. Taking the world towards the sustainable development we need is a revolution waiting to happen, if we only allow it.’

Enrico Giovannini – Former Chief Statistician, OECD

‘Post growth is one of the most important ideas of the 21st century, and Tim Jackson one of its most powerful proponents. Don’t miss this brilliant new book.’

Jason Hickel – Author of Less is More

‘An unapologetic, clear-eyed vision, Post Growth challenges the reader to venture beyond the comforting certainty in the misguided economic myths of the past and present. Jackson weaves my father Robert Kennedy’s words into a comprehensive distillation of our core economic foundations and presents our assumptions about growth not as laws of nature but as flawed precepts in inescapable conflict with them. Post Growth is part grand historical narrative, part philosophical treatise, and taken fully, an invitation for readers to explore the deeper undercurrents of what can make a just, fulfilling and sustainable society.’