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Tim Jackson (economist)
Overview
Tim Jackson (born 1957) is a British ecological economist and professor of sustainable development at the University of Surrey. He is the director of the Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity (CUSP), a multi-disciplinary, international research consortium which aims to understand the economic, social and political dimensions of sustainable prosperity. Tim Jackson is the author of Prosperity Without Growth (2009 and 2017) and Material Concerns (1996). In 2016, he received the Hillary Laureate for exceptional mid-career Leadership. His most recent book The Care Economy was published in May 2025 by Polity Press.
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Such is the _modus vivendi_. But its simplicity is oversimple and unreal. It pictures the "economic man" as bound in the chains of a perfunctory deference that he would throw off if he could. For the theory of constructive comparison or creative intelligence, on the other hand, instead of a seeker and recipient of "psychic income" and a calculator of gain and loss, he is a personal agent maintaining continuity of…
John Dewey, Creative Intelligence
Close in meaning to Tim Jackson; the term itself is not named.
Besides the classic treatises of Adam Smith, J. S. Mill, and Karl Marx, which are important for the relation of the economic to the whole social order during the past century, the following recent works in the general field give especial prominence to the ethical problems involved: Marshall, _Principles of Economics_, 1898; Hadley, _Economics_, 1896; Clark, _Essentials of Economic Theory as Applied to Modern…
John Dewey, Ethics
Close in meaning to Tim Jackson; the term itself is not named.
The omission is no defect in them as abstract or hypothetical sciences, but it vitiates them in their practical application as branches of a comprehensive social science. In political economy, for instance, empirical laws of human nature are tacitly assumed by English thinkers, which are calculated only for Great Britain and the United States. Among other things, an intensity of competition is constantly supposed…
John Stuart Mill, A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive
States what Tim Jackson is.
Related ideas
- Le Monde
- The Guardian
- BBC
- Sustainable development
- The New York Times
- Anthony Giddens
- Routledge
- Stock-flow consistent model
Place in the tradition
Part of Ubuntu philosophy.