Prosperity without Growth

Let us be realistic, we all know that our economic system is broken. We cannot go on making stuff and throwing it away on a finite planet.

There are now 8 billion people on Earth all wanting to have a good life. So what is the alternative to economic growth? Well, Tim wonderfully shows us how the economy of tomorrow could protect employment, facilitate social investment, reduce inequality, and deliver both ecological and financial stability.

When this book was first published it was seen as a radical and dangerous text. Now with the rise of environmental and ecological economics it… show more.

Jackson updates, elaborates, and takes forward – critically, of course, taking into account climate change, the greatest threat not covered directly in the original Limits to Growth book, which preceded our awakening to the climate threat – the arguments made in that first groundbreaking criticism of the assumed growth imperative. Crucially, he also argues that we can not only survive, but positively prosper and flourish, without economic growth.