Prosperity without Growth: Foundations for the Economy of Tomorrow
Written by Tim Jackson
Narrated by Quentin Cooper
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About this audiobook
What can prosperity possibly mean in a world of environmental and social limits? Pity debate, Tim Jackson’s piercing challenge to conventional economics openly questioned the most highly prized goal of politicians and economists alike: the continued pursuit of exponential economic growth. Its findings provoked controversy, inspired debate and led to a new wave of research building on its arguments and conclusions. This substantially revised and re-written edition updates those arguments and considerably expands upon them. Jackson demonstrates that building a ‘post-growth’ economy is a precise, definable and meaningful task. Starting from clear first principles, he sets out the dimensions of that task: the nature of enterprise; the quality of our working lives; the structure of investment; and the role of the money supply. He shows how the economy of tomorrow may be transformed in ways that protect employment, facilitate social investment, reduce inequality and deliver both ecological and financial stability. Seven years after it was first published, Prosperity without Growth is no longer a radical narrative whispered by a marginal fringe, but an essential vision of social progress in a post-crisis world. Fulfilling that vision is simply the most urgent task of our times.
Tim Jackson
Tim Jackson is a nationally syndicated cartoonist and illustrator. He earned a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and has illustrated editorial cartoons for the Chicago Defender, Chicago Tribune, and Cincinnati Herald, among other publications.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Jackson lays out clearly the whys and the ways to shift from our current dis-functional system to a prosperous, sustainable economy. An inspirational, hopeful vision of a future worth working toward.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Extremely informative but most importantly accessible book to understand the economics guiding us into crises we now find ourselves in.