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Care maintains the world. The market made it invisible.
In The Care Economy, economist and writer @timjackson.org.uk exposes the violence behind growth-at-all-costs and calls for an economy that heals, not harms.
Out now (US + global):
🔗 timjackson.org.uk/the-care-eco...
#TheCareEconomy #PostGrowth
In The Care Economy, economist and writer @timjackson.org.uk exposes the violence behind growth-at-all-costs and calls for an economy that heals, not harms.
Out now (US + global):
🔗 timjackson.org.uk/the-care-eco...
#TheCareEconomy #PostGrowth
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New blog: How can farmers and food workers care?
FFCC's Dr Charlie Taverner on how food work is valued and what farmers and delivery drivers have in common with nurses and doctors.
Read it here: ffcc.co.uk/conversation...
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FFCC's Dr Charlie Taverner on how food work is valued and what farmers and delivery drivers have in common with nurses and doctors.
Read it here: ffcc.co.uk/conversation...
@cusp.ac.uk
How can farmers and food workers care?
Dr Charlie Taverner on how food work is valued and what farmers and delivery drivers have in common with nurses and doctor.
ffcc.co.uk
December 19, 2025 at 10:45 AM
New blog: How can farmers and food workers care?
FFCC's Dr Charlie Taverner on how food work is valued and what farmers and delivery drivers have in common with nurses and doctors.
Read it here: ffcc.co.uk/conversation...
@cusp.ac.uk
FFCC's Dr Charlie Taverner on how food work is valued and what farmers and delivery drivers have in common with nurses and doctors.
Read it here: ffcc.co.uk/conversation...
@cusp.ac.uk
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In a blog post for @cusp.ac.uk I argue that countries are not decoupling fast enough and that growth remains a barrier to genuine progress on carbon emissions. But the increased rate of decoupling should prompt reflections from environmentalists and ecological economists.
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Can we really have green growth? | Comment by Simon Mair
Has economic growth really been decoupled from climate damage? In this blog, Simon Mair examines recent claims from the Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit ...
cusp.ac.uk
December 19, 2025 at 12:27 PM
In a blog post for @cusp.ac.uk I argue that countries are not decoupling fast enough and that growth remains a barrier to genuine progress on carbon emissions. But the increased rate of decoupling should prompt reflections from environmentalists and ecological economists.
cusp.ac.uk/themes/aetw/...
cusp.ac.uk/themes/aetw/...
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Yesterday, FFCC brought together leaders from across food, farming and land use for a cross-sector discussion on shared priorities and practical routes to action.
December 5, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Yesterday, FFCC brought together leaders from across food, farming and land use for a cross-sector discussion on shared priorities and practical routes to action.
The high price of cheap food—who’s counting the cost of our national diet? // As the new @ffc-commission.bsky.social report launches, @timjackson.org.uk explores the hidden costs of a booming fast-food industry & what it means for our health, communities and environment. → cusp.ac.uk/themes/healt...
The high price of cheap food—who’s counting the cost of our national diet? | By Tim Jackson
To accompany the launch of the latest report by the UK’s Food, Farming and Countryside Commission, Prof Tim Jackson explores the hidden costs of our nationa ...
cusp.ac.uk
December 4, 2025 at 10:53 AM
The high price of cheap food—who’s counting the cost of our national diet? // As the new @ffc-commission.bsky.social report launches, @timjackson.org.uk explores the hidden costs of a booming fast-food industry & what it means for our health, communities and environment. → cusp.ac.uk/themes/healt...
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Assessing public support for degrowth // New study by CUSP fellow @krpd.bsky.social and colleagues finds that—contrary to common political and media claims—the majority of respondents support #degrowth when presented with the full proposal, regardless of the label. → cusp.ac.uk/themes/aetw/...
Assessing public support for degrowth: survey-based experimental and predictive studies | Journal paper
Using representative surveys in the UK and US with over 5,000 participants, a new study by CUSP fellow Dario Krpan and colleagues Fred Basso, Jason Hickel, ...
cusp.ac.uk
December 2, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Assessing public support for degrowth // New study by CUSP fellow @krpd.bsky.social and colleagues finds that—contrary to common political and media claims—the majority of respondents support #degrowth when presented with the full proposal, regardless of the label. → cusp.ac.uk/themes/aetw/...
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"It was becoming increasingly clear that the allegiance to economic growth is a new religious form. That growth-based consumerism is itself a secular theodicy."
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The Quest for Prosperity | Tim Jackson's Foreword to Richard Douglas' new book The Meaning of Growth
This is an amended version of Tim Jackson's Foreword for Richard McNeill Douglas' new book The Meaning of Growth—Anti-Environmentalist Rhetoric an ...
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December 2, 2025 at 8:47 PM
"It was becoming increasingly clear that the allegiance to economic growth is a new religious form. That growth-based consumerism is itself a secular theodicy."
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cusp.ac.uk/themes/aetw/...
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The classic early retirement story! @will-davies.bsky.social & I wrote about this movement & all its contradictions back in 2020. doi.org/10.1080/1753...
I assume FIRE has been turbocharged post-pandemic, with the combo of job disillusionment & asset appreciation.
I assume FIRE has been turbocharged post-pandemic, with the combo of job disillusionment & asset appreciation.
December 1, 2025 at 9:35 PM
The classic early retirement story! @will-davies.bsky.social & I wrote about this movement & all its contradictions back in 2020. doi.org/10.1080/1753...
I assume FIRE has been turbocharged post-pandemic, with the combo of job disillusionment & asset appreciation.
I assume FIRE has been turbocharged post-pandemic, with the combo of job disillusionment & asset appreciation.
Assessing public support for degrowth // New study by CUSP fellow @krpd.bsky.social and colleagues finds that—contrary to common political and media claims—the majority of respondents support #degrowth when presented with the full proposal, regardless of the label. → cusp.ac.uk/themes/aetw/...
Assessing public support for degrowth: survey-based experimental and predictive studies | Journal paper
Using representative surveys in the UK and US with over 5,000 participants, a new study by CUSP fellow Dario Krpan and colleagues Fred Basso, Jason Hickel, ...
cusp.ac.uk
December 2, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Assessing public support for degrowth // New study by CUSP fellow @krpd.bsky.social and colleagues finds that—contrary to common political and media claims—the majority of respondents support #degrowth when presented with the full proposal, regardless of the label. → cusp.ac.uk/themes/aetw/...
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Food shapes our health, environment, and economy—yet the UK food system currently drives illness + environmental harm. It doesn’t have to. CUSP researchers helped identify 27 practical actions to make food fairer, greener, and more resilient. → cusp.ac.uk/themes/food/... #TUKFS
Action to Transform the UK Food Systems: innovations for an alternative | Blog by Fergus Lyon
The UK food system faces rising health and environmental costs. Evidence from the TUKFS Programme outlines systemic changes for a sustainable future. In thi ...
cusp.ac.uk
November 11, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Food shapes our health, environment, and economy—yet the UK food system currently drives illness + environmental harm. It doesn’t have to. CUSP researchers helped identify 27 practical actions to make food fairer, greener, and more resilient. → cusp.ac.uk/themes/food/... #TUKFS
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Deep, personal, frank, meaningful. Tim Jackson's Foreword bodes well for this new book, The Meaning of Growth, by Richard Douglas cusp.ac.uk/themes/aetw/...
The Quest for Prosperity | Tim Jackson's Foreword to Richard Douglas' new book The Meaning of Growth
This is an amended version of Tim Jackson's Foreword for Richard McNeill Douglas' new book The Meaning of Growth—Anti-Environmentalist Rhetoric an ...
cusp.ac.uk
November 12, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Deep, personal, frank, meaningful. Tim Jackson's Foreword bodes well for this new book, The Meaning of Growth, by Richard Douglas cusp.ac.uk/themes/aetw/...
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Once people understand what Degrowth is, the majority support it (74–84% in the UK and 67–73% in the US), regardless of the label. See our new research in @thelancet.com www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
@giorgoskallis.bsky.social @jasonhickel.bsky.social @F. Basso @lsepbs.bsky.social @cusp.ac.uk
@giorgoskallis.bsky.social @jasonhickel.bsky.social @F. Basso @lsepbs.bsky.social @cusp.ac.uk
December 2, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Once people understand what Degrowth is, the majority support it (74–84% in the UK and 67–73% in the US), regardless of the label. See our new research in @thelancet.com www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
@giorgoskallis.bsky.social @jasonhickel.bsky.social @F. Basso @lsepbs.bsky.social @cusp.ac.uk
@giorgoskallis.bsky.social @jasonhickel.bsky.social @F. Basso @lsepbs.bsky.social @cusp.ac.uk
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Call for abstracts: Learning from Non-Capitalist Economies. Deadline 19th December. Details here: esee2026ghent.be/wp-content/u...
Abstracts will form sessions at the 16th Biennial Conference of the European Society of Ecological Economics in Ghent. More details th thread below:
Abstracts will form sessions at the 16th Biennial Conference of the European Society of Ecological Economics in Ghent. More details th thread below:
esee2026ghent.be
December 1, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Call for abstracts: Learning from Non-Capitalist Economies. Deadline 19th December. Details here: esee2026ghent.be/wp-content/u...
Abstracts will form sessions at the 16th Biennial Conference of the European Society of Ecological Economics in Ghent. More details th thread below:
Abstracts will form sessions at the 16th Biennial Conference of the European Society of Ecological Economics in Ghent. More details th thread below:
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Have you signed up to next week's FREE webinar?
Join Dr Richard Douglas (@maitrereynard.bsky.social @cusp.ac.uk) to discuss the contributions of robust public theology in the context of our environmental crisis
📍Thurs 4 December, 6-7.15pm, online
Sign up today: eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-third-...
Join Dr Richard Douglas (@maitrereynard.bsky.social @cusp.ac.uk) to discuss the contributions of robust public theology in the context of our environmental crisis
📍Thurs 4 December, 6-7.15pm, online
Sign up today: eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-third-...
November 28, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Have you signed up to next week's FREE webinar?
Join Dr Richard Douglas (@maitrereynard.bsky.social @cusp.ac.uk) to discuss the contributions of robust public theology in the context of our environmental crisis
📍Thurs 4 December, 6-7.15pm, online
Sign up today: eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-third-...
Join Dr Richard Douglas (@maitrereynard.bsky.social @cusp.ac.uk) to discuss the contributions of robust public theology in the context of our environmental crisis
📍Thurs 4 December, 6-7.15pm, online
Sign up today: eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-third-...
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Why care is the foundation of a thriving society – #Mindvalley Book Club with @timjackson.org.uk and Kristina Mänd-Lakhiani. → cusp.ac.uk/themes/aetw/...
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Why care is the foundation of a thriving society | Mindvalley Book Club with Tim Jackson
Kristina Mänd-Lakhiani speaks with Tim to discuss why modern economics overlooks care work, how the pandemic exposed the real foundations of society, and wh ...
cusp.ac.uk
November 4, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Why care is the foundation of a thriving society – #Mindvalley Book Club with @timjackson.org.uk and Kristina Mänd-Lakhiani. → cusp.ac.uk/themes/aetw/...
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Why are organisations so weird? And what could we do to make them better? Mark Walton and Kate Swade have been exploring just this through their CUSP-supported podcast project, #CorporateBodies. → cusp.ac.uk/themes/s1/bl...
Exploring the corporate body | Blog by Kate Swade
Why are organisations so weird? And what could we do to make them better? Mark Walton and Kate Swade have been exploring just this through their CUSP-suppor ...
cusp.ac.uk
November 24, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Why are organisations so weird? And what could we do to make them better? Mark Walton and Kate Swade have been exploring just this through their CUSP-supported podcast project, #CorporateBodies. → cusp.ac.uk/themes/s1/bl...
Monetary Policy for a Just Macrofinancial Regime—CUSP partnering in new P4NE-funded project exploring how central banks can adapt monetary policy to support a green and just economic transition. → cusp.ac.uk/themes/finan...
Monetary Policy for a Just Macrofinancial Regime—CUSP partnering in new P4NE-funded project
Researchers from the CUSP at the University of Surrey have secured funding from the Partners for a New Economy (P4NE) foundation for a new two-year research ...
cusp.ac.uk
November 17, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Monetary Policy for a Just Macrofinancial Regime—CUSP partnering in new P4NE-funded project exploring how central banks can adapt monetary policy to support a green and just economic transition. → cusp.ac.uk/themes/finan...
The Quest for Prosperity | @timjackson.org.uk’s Foreword for @maitrereynard.bsky.social’s new book The Meaning of Growth: Anti-Environmentalist Rhetoric and the Defence of Modernity. → cusp.ac.uk/themes/aetw/...
cc #Postgrowth #LimitsToGrowth #Progress #Modernity #ProsperityWithoutGrowth
cc #Postgrowth #LimitsToGrowth #Progress #Modernity #ProsperityWithoutGrowth
The Quest for Prosperity | Tim Jackson's Foreword to Richard Douglas' new book The Meaning of Growth
This is an amended version of Tim Jackson's Foreword for Richard McNeill Douglas' new book The Meaning of Growth—Anti-Environmentalist Rhetoric an ...
cusp.ac.uk
November 12, 2025 at 12:22 PM
The Quest for Prosperity | @timjackson.org.uk’s Foreword for @maitrereynard.bsky.social’s new book The Meaning of Growth: Anti-Environmentalist Rhetoric and the Defence of Modernity. → cusp.ac.uk/themes/aetw/...
cc #Postgrowth #LimitsToGrowth #Progress #Modernity #ProsperityWithoutGrowth
cc #Postgrowth #LimitsToGrowth #Progress #Modernity #ProsperityWithoutGrowth
Food shapes our health, environment, and economy—yet the UK food system currently drives illness + environmental harm. It doesn’t have to. CUSP researchers helped identify 27 practical actions to make food fairer, greener, and more resilient. → cusp.ac.uk/themes/food/... #TUKFS
Action to Transform the UK Food Systems: innovations for an alternative | Blog by Fergus Lyon
The UK food system faces rising health and environmental costs. Evidence from the TUKFS Programme outlines systemic changes for a sustainable future. In thi ...
cusp.ac.uk
November 11, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Food shapes our health, environment, and economy—yet the UK food system currently drives illness + environmental harm. It doesn’t have to. CUSP researchers helped identify 27 practical actions to make food fairer, greener, and more resilient. → cusp.ac.uk/themes/food/... #TUKFS
It's Politics, Captain—But Not As We Know It → thealternative.org.uk/dailyalterna... HT #TheAlternative @thealternative.global
Alternative Editorial: It's Politics, Captain - But Not As We Know It — THE ALTERNATIVE
Since our last editorial there has been an ‘energetic shift’ in the party-political world. Zohran Mamdani’s victory against Andrew Cuomo to become Mayor of New York, marks the end of a political...
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November 11, 2025 at 5:31 PM
It's Politics, Captain—But Not As We Know It → thealternative.org.uk/dailyalterna... HT #TheAlternative @thealternative.global
The Care Economy: Redefining Prosperity in a World Beyond Growth | @economicresearch.bsky.social seminar with @timjackson.org.uk | Online, 🗓️ 24 Nov, 7-8pm GMT → www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-care-e...
cc #TheCareEconomy #CareEconomy #PostGrowth #Degrowth #ProsperityWithoutGrowth #ÖkonomieDerFürsorge
cc #TheCareEconomy #CareEconomy #PostGrowth #Degrowth #ProsperityWithoutGrowth #ÖkonomieDerFürsorge
The Care Economy: Redefining Prosperity in a World Beyond Growth
Join Tim Jackson to explore how care can form the foundation of a humane, sustainable economy.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 9:21 AM
The Care Economy: Redefining Prosperity in a World Beyond Growth | @economicresearch.bsky.social seminar with @timjackson.org.uk | Online, 🗓️ 24 Nov, 7-8pm GMT → www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-care-e...
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cc #TheCareEconomy #CareEconomy #PostGrowth #Degrowth #ProsperityWithoutGrowth #ÖkonomieDerFürsorge
Why care is the foundation of a thriving society – #Mindvalley Book Club with @timjackson.org.uk and Kristina Mänd-Lakhiani. → cusp.ac.uk/themes/aetw/...
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cc #TheCareEconomy #CareEconomy #Kairos #PostGrowth #Degrowth #ProsperityWithoutGrowth #LifeAfterCapitalism #BigFood
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cc #TheCareEconomy #CareEconomy #Kairos #PostGrowth #Degrowth #ProsperityWithoutGrowth #LifeAfterCapitalism #BigFood
Why care is the foundation of a thriving society | Mindvalley Book Club with Tim Jackson
Kristina Mänd-Lakhiani speaks with Tim to discuss why modern economics overlooks care work, how the pandemic exposed the real foundations of society, and wh ...
cusp.ac.uk
November 4, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Why care is the foundation of a thriving society – #Mindvalley Book Club with @timjackson.org.uk and Kristina Mänd-Lakhiani. → cusp.ac.uk/themes/aetw/...
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cc #TheCareEconomy #CareEconomy #Kairos #PostGrowth #Degrowth #ProsperityWithoutGrowth #LifeAfterCapitalism #BigFood
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cc #TheCareEconomy #CareEconomy #Kairos #PostGrowth #Degrowth #ProsperityWithoutGrowth #LifeAfterCapitalism #BigFood
Learning to walk lightly through the world | New journal paper
by Patrick Elf, James Ferreira Moura Jr and Amanda Kumaruara, calling for rapid unlearning of harmful modern practices by learning from Indigenous teachings—toward a decolonised, caring, & sustainable future.→ cusp.ac.uk/themes/natur...
by Patrick Elf, James Ferreira Moura Jr and Amanda Kumaruara, calling for rapid unlearning of harmful modern practices by learning from Indigenous teachings—toward a decolonised, caring, & sustainable future.→ cusp.ac.uk/themes/natur...
Learning to walk lightly through the world: Lessons from Amazonian Indigenous praxis | Journal paper
New paper by Patrick Elf, James Ferreira Moura Junior and Amanda Kumaruara, calling for rapid unlearning of harmful modern practices by learning from Indige ...
cusp.ac.uk
October 23, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Learning to walk lightly through the world | New journal paper
by Patrick Elf, James Ferreira Moura Jr and Amanda Kumaruara, calling for rapid unlearning of harmful modern practices by learning from Indigenous teachings—toward a decolonised, caring, & sustainable future.→ cusp.ac.uk/themes/natur...
by Patrick Elf, James Ferreira Moura Jr and Amanda Kumaruara, calling for rapid unlearning of harmful modern practices by learning from Indigenous teachings—toward a decolonised, caring, & sustainable future.→ cusp.ac.uk/themes/natur...
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Video: A World That Cares—Building an economy that values care | How the Light Gets In Festival with @timjackson.org.uk and Catherine Liu → cusp.ac.uk/themes/m/tj-... HT @iai.tv
cc #TheCareEconomy #CareEconomy #PostGrowth #BigFood #BigPharma
cc #TheCareEconomy #CareEconomy #PostGrowth #BigFood #BigPharma
Video: A World That Cares | How the Light Gets In Festival with Tim Jackson and Catherine Liu
The pursuit of productivity often sidelines the essential work of care—whether for children, the sick, or the elderly. Catherine Liu, Tim Jackson, and David ...
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October 6, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Video: A World That Cares—Building an economy that values care | How the Light Gets In Festival with @timjackson.org.uk and Catherine Liu → cusp.ac.uk/themes/m/tj-... HT @iai.tv
cc #TheCareEconomy #CareEconomy #PostGrowth #BigFood #BigPharma
cc #TheCareEconomy #CareEconomy #PostGrowth #BigFood #BigPharma
In his new blog, CUSP researcher @maitrereynard.bsky.social explores the spiritual roots of political climate denial and society’s attachment to growth—and how defending growth has become a defence of modernity itself. → cusp.ac.uk/themes/m/blo...
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Climate denial and the defence of modernity | Blog by Richard McNeill Douglas
What we are lacking is an inspiring vision of our lives, collective futures, and spiritual reality in a world in which we cannot keep growing forever. As mu ...
cusp.ac.uk
October 21, 2025 at 2:46 PM
In his new blog, CUSP researcher @maitrereynard.bsky.social explores the spiritual roots of political climate denial and society’s attachment to growth—and how defending growth has become a defence of modernity itself. → cusp.ac.uk/themes/m/blo...
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#RoutledgeRevisited
Prosperity Without Growth
@timjackson.org.uk
"Cuts through the intellectual clamour with clarity, courage & hope" @naomiaklein.bsky.social
"Essential reading for those refusing to succumb to a dystopic future" @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social
www.routledge.com/Prosperity-w...
Prosperity Without Growth
@timjackson.org.uk
"Cuts through the intellectual clamour with clarity, courage & hope" @naomiaklein.bsky.social
"Essential reading for those refusing to succumb to a dystopic future" @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social
www.routledge.com/Prosperity-w...
October 9, 2025 at 1:00 PM
#RoutledgeRevisited
Prosperity Without Growth
@timjackson.org.uk
"Cuts through the intellectual clamour with clarity, courage & hope" @naomiaklein.bsky.social
"Essential reading for those refusing to succumb to a dystopic future" @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social
www.routledge.com/Prosperity-w...
Prosperity Without Growth
@timjackson.org.uk
"Cuts through the intellectual clamour with clarity, courage & hope" @naomiaklein.bsky.social
"Essential reading for those refusing to succumb to a dystopic future" @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social
www.routledge.com/Prosperity-w...