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Ecological Macroeconomics | Book chapter by Peter Victor in Elgar Encyclopedia of Ecological Economics
2023-09-28 in CUSP | Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable ProsperityThis account of ecological macroeconomics begins with its origins, including the development of some of its defining components by key contributors, followed by an overview of recent research in ec…
Tagged under: Economics
Managing Climate Risk: The Role of Financial Regulators in the Net Zero Transition | Policy Report
2023-06-27 in CUSP | Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable ProsperityThis Aldersgate Group report with CUSP calls on the UK Government to provide a strong legal basis for financial regulators to support the transition to a net zero and nature positive economy. It fi…
Tagged under: Net Zero | Finance
From Davos to Reykjavík: decoupling wellbeing from growth | By Tim Jackson
2023-06-22 in CUSP | Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable ProsperityIn June this year, Iceland’s Prime Minister Katrin Jakobsdóttir hosted the first Wellbeing Economy Forum in Reykjavík. Tim Jackson’s keynote there explored the relationship between the ‘wellbeing e…
Tagged under: Economics
When the dancing went wrong, the evening went right: An argument for ageing and changing cultural practice | Journal Paper
2023-06-22 in CUSP | Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable ProsperityInspired by a line dancing club in Stoke-on-Trent, and drawing principally on cultural theorist Raymond Williams, this article makes the case for appreciating the ways that cultural practices age a…
Post Growth and the North-South Divide: a post-Keynesian stock-flow consistent analysis | Working Paper
2023-04-16 in CUSP | Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable ProsperityThis working paper describes a two-region post-Keynesian stock-flow consistent macroeconomic model set out to analyse macroeconomic implications of a postgrowth transition in advanced countries on …
Just how far is ‘beyond growth’ for policy makers?—Economics for Rebels podcast with Tim Jackson
2023-04-14 in CUSP | Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable ProsperityEcological economists integrating ecological and critical social perspectives have long been working on ideas to bring about just sustainability transformations. This podcast aims at communicating …
Tagged under: Economics | Economic Growth | Sustainability
Escape from Overshoot: Economics for a Planet in Peril | Book by Peter A. Victor
2023-04-03 in CUSP | Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable ProsperityEarth is in overshoot. The relentless pursuit of economic growth in the name of “progress” has stressed the planet beyond its limits. This richly illustrated book by CUSP co-investigato…
Tagged under: Economics | Economic Growth
IPCC report: the world must cut emissions and urgently adapt to the new climate realities | Blog by Bronwyn Hayward
2023-03-20 in CUSP | Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable ProsperityAlready, climate change plays out in all parts of the world. Every further increment of warming will bring rapidly escalating hazards, exacerbating more intense heatwaves and floods, ocean warming …
Tagged under: Oceans | IPCC | Climate Change | Heatwaves
The relevance of aesthetics to the possibility of sustainable futures | Journal paper by Anastasia Loukianov
2023-03-08 in CUSP | Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable ProsperityThe sociology of consumption has had a fraught relationship with aesthetics, with varying levels of interest in the concept throughout the history of the discipline. Today, aesthetics is barely men…
Temporality in climate activism: Alternative futures in a post-apocalyptic present | Journal paper by Joost de Moor and Jens Marquardt
2023-03-03 in CUSP | Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable ProsperityClimate activists are confronted with an increasing tension between the need for urgent climate action and a sense that it could already be too late to prevent ‘dangerous’ or ‘runaway’ climate chan…
Tagged under: Activism
Towards a Model of Baumol’s Cost Disease in a Postgrowth Economy | Working Paper
2023-02-16 in CUSP | Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable ProsperityThis working paper describes an extension of the stock-flow consistent FALSTAFF model to test the existence of a monetary growth imperative. The extension is designed to simulate the phenomenon kno…
Tagged under: Economics
Postgrowth Mindset | Blog by Richard McNeill Douglas
2022-08-10 in CUSP | Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable ProsperityMainstream politics has long proved resistant to the arguments of those who question the pursuit of unending economic growth. CUSP researcher Richard McNeill Douglas suggests a treatment.
Tagged under: Economics | Economic Growth
The kids are not OK | Guest blog by Julia Steinberger
2022-05-11 in CUSP | Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable ProsperityVery recently, IPCC lead author Prof Julia Steinberger went to give a climate talk at her old high school in Geneva—and—in her own words—was given a masterclass in our failings. This is the story o…
Tagged under: IPCC
Bringing postgrowth research into policy | Working Paper by Richard McNeill Douglas
2022-03-21 in CUSP | Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable ProsperityDrawing lessons from a six-month project funded by the Laudes Foundation, as well as from a wider review of evidence, this report analyses the barriers to bringing postgrowth research into policy. …
Aligning the UK’s economic goals with environmental sustainability | Evidence submissions to the EAC Beyond GDP inquiry
2022-01-29 in CUSP | Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable ProsperityAhead of hearings planned for 9 February 2022, the UK Environmental Audit Committee invited written submissions to examine how the UK Government could incorporate environmental sustainability into …
Tagged under: Economic Growth | Sustainability
A Commoners’ Climate Movement | Book Chapter by Lucy Stone, Gustavo Montes de OcaIan and Ian Christie
2022-01-12 in CUSP | Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable ProsperityThis book chapter as part of the edited collection 'Addressing the Climate Crisis: Local action in theory and practice' draws from Elinor Ostrom’s scholarship on managing commons and a wider literature reviewto make the case for cooperative community-based action in the domains of community energy, agriculture and transport.
Designing for impact: the next stage for climate assemblies | Blog by Graham Smith
2022-01-09 in CUSP | Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable ProsperityClimate assemblies are at the peak of the current deliberative wave, CUSP fellow Graham Smith writes, but much more creative work is needed to integrate these bodies into the political system of policy making and policy cycles more effectively.
Worker wellbeing and productivity in advanced economies: Re-examining the link | Journal paper by Amy Isham, Simon Mair and Tim Jackson
2021-02-26 in CUSP | Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable ProsperityLabour productivity is a key concept for understanding the way modern economies use resources and features prominently in ecological economics. Ecological economists have questioned the desirability of labour productivity growth on both environmental and social grounds. In this paper we aim to contribute to ongoing debates by focusing on the link between labour productivity and worker wellbeing.
Tagged under: Economics | Economic Growth
Biodiversity Risk, Natural Capital and actuarial practice | Blog by Aled Jones et al
2020-12-03 in CUSP | Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable ProsperityA new cross-sector work programme has been launched by CUSP researcher Aled Jones together with the Institute and Faculty of the Actuaries, to take forward a series of activities including think pieces, webinars and external engagement to ensure the proactive engagement of the actuary profession with the importance, perils and impacts of global biodiversity risks. This blog is outlining the agenda.
Tagged under: Finance | Capitalism
The Altruist Within: In pursuit of sustainability and justice in a broken financial system | By Tim Jackson
2020-05-14 in CUSP | Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable ProsperityThis blog is an edited version of a keynote CUSP director Tim Jackson gave at the 2013 Sea of Faith Annual Conference in Leicester. In outlining the philosophical foundation of a different approach to economics, this essay speaks as much to the financial crisis from 2008, as it does to the current health and economic predicament from COVID-19.
Tagged under: Economics | Health | Sustainability
Disobedience, Protest, and the Pandemic: Climate Change and Citizen Action under Conditions of Social Distancing | Blog by Graeme Hayes
2020-05-05 in CUSP | Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable ProsperityCivil disobedience is not just a checklist of components, but a tradition of morally purposeful action and an expression of citizenship, CUSP Fellow Graeme Hayes writes. As the pandemic ushers in new social norms, and political and economic interests may seek to capitalise on the crisis to further deepen social inequality, how social movements rethink their tactics may have profound consequences for the effectiveness of future protests.
Tagged under: Climate Change | Economics | Capitalism | Activism
Change in the political economy of land value capture in England | Journal Paper
2020-02-28 in CUSP | Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable ProsperityVariations in the character, performance and impact of policies and practices to capture land value for the community are usually examined by analysing experience in different countries. This paper…
Tagged under: Economics
Wellbeing and Productivity: A Review of the Literature | Working Paper by Amy Isham, Simon Mair and Tim Jackson
2020-01-20 in CUSP | Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable ProsperityThis report reviews the relationships between the different aspects of wellbeing, productivity, and productivity growth. It is the culmination of a desk-based evidence review, survey, and a mapping workshop held with experts from backgrounds including psychology, sociology, economics, and design. The focus is on wellbeing and labour productivity.
Tagged under: Economics | Economic Growth
CUSP | Understanding Sustainable Prosperity
2020-01-10 (or before) in CUSP | Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable ProsperityCUSP is an internationally leading research organisation, dedicated to tackling the post-growth challenge. The research addresses not just the economic aspects of sustainable prosperity, but also its social, political and philosophical dimensions. Working closely with business, social enterprise, civil society and government, the Centre aims to develop pragmatic steps towards an inclusive economy that works for everyone.
Tagged under: Economics | Economic Growth
CUSP | Understanding Sustainable Prosperity
2020-01-01 (or before) in CUSP | Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable ProsperityCUSP is an internationally leading research organisation, dedicated to tackling the post-growth challenge. The research addresses not just the economic aspects of sustainable prosperity, but also its social, political and philosophical dimensions. Working closely with business, social enterprise, civil society and government, the Centre aims to develop pragmatic steps towards an inclusive economy that works for everyone.
Tagged under: Economics | Economic Growth
Tackling the political economy of transformative change | Blog by Daniel Hausknost
2019-11-21 in CUSP | Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable ProsperityFor Joseph Schumpeter, ‘creative destruction’ was an inherent feature of Capitalist development; what if we apply its logic to transformative political change instead? We have plenty of solutions at hand, Daniel Hausknost argues; it's time for decisions.
Tagged under: Economics | Capitalism
Zero Carbon Sooner—The case for an early zero carbon target for the UK | Working Paper by Tim Jackson
2019-07-18 in CUSP | Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable ProsperityCUSP briefing addressing the question of when the UK should aim for zero carbon emissions. In it, Prof Tim Jackson is making the case for a (fair) zero carbon target of 2030, calling for a policy strategy not only on zero carbon targets, but emission pathways, with a defined level of negative emission technologies. It is notable that reduction rates high enough both to lead to zero carbon (on a consumption basis) by 2050 and to remain within the carbon budget require absolute reductions of more than 95% of carbon emissions as early as 2030.
Bildung in the 21st Century—Why sustainable prosperity depends upon reimagining education | Essay by Jonathan Rowson
2019-06-19 in CUSP | Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable ProsperityOur understanding of the world is not a spectator sport, but more like an active ingredient in societal renewal, Jonathan Rowson writes in his essay. The premise of this essay is that we need to reconsider Bildung today: to make it about our responsibility for and participation in an evolving process of social maturation that reimagines culture, technology, institutions and policies for the greater good.
Tagged under: Sustainability | Education
Nature Writing for the Common Good—A collection of essays on nature, ecological challenges, and connections between people and places
2019-04-07 in CUSP | Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable ProsperityHow can nature writing contribute to the common good, we wanted to know? Could writing about nature ‘help generate a collective and popular politics of conservation and connection’, asked Kate Oakl…
Which financial architecture can protect environmental commons? | Article by Nick Molho and Tim Jackson
2018-10-20 in CUSP | Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable ProsperityThe discourse around ‘natural capital’ potentially offers a way to integrate decisions about the commons effectively into economic decisions. Investing in the commons is key to protecting the flow of services provided to society by natural capital. Recent exploration of the potential for investing in natural infrastructure has highlighted numerous mechanisms, which could help turn this proposition into a reality.
Tagged under: Economics | Capitalism
Prosperity without Growth—Foundations for the Economy of Tomorrow
2017-04-27 in CUSP | Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable ProsperityThe publication of Prosperity without Growth was a landmark in the sustainability debate. This substantially revised and re-written edition updates its arguments, outlining the foundations for the economy of tomorrow.
Tagged under: Economics | Sustainability
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