Prof Tim Jackson
@timjackson.org.uk
Ecological Economist and Playwright. Author of »The Care Economy« (2025), »Post Growth« (2021) and »Prosperity Without Growth« (2009/2017). Director of @cusp.ac.uk.
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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 ...
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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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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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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.
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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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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
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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
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Tijd voor #CaringEconomists? @timjackson.org.uk ,welcome to the @caringmovement.bsky.social! "Als economen het over voorspoed hebben, hebben ze het vaak over wealth, materiële welvaart of rijkdom. U koppelt voorspoed aan health, gezondheid of welzijn". www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...
Een economie gericht op zorg in plaats van groei en individueel gewin? Het kan, zegt deze econoom
Tim Jackson | ecologisch econoom: De „hypernerveuze samenleving” met zijn burn-outs en psychische problemen eist z’n tol. Postgroeidenker Tim Jackson pleit voor een economie die draait om zorg en zorg...
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October 7, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Tijd voor #CaringEconomists? @timjackson.org.uk ,welcome to the @caringmovement.bsky.social! "Als economen het over voorspoed hebben, hebben ze het vaak over wealth, materiële welvaart of rijkdom. U koppelt voorspoed aan health, gezondheid of welzijn". www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...
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Postgrowth-econoom Tim Jackson: ‘We hebben meer zorg nodig, niet nog meer rijkdom’
www.volkskrant.nl/economie/pos... maar hier worden geen debatten over gevierd. Zou wel zo fijn zijn.
www.volkskrant.nl/economie/pos... maar hier worden geen debatten over gevierd. Zou wel zo fijn zijn.
Postgrowth-econoom Tim Jackson: ‘We hebben meer zorg nodig, niet nog meer rijkdom’
Zorg is veel belangrijker dan economische groei, stelt de Britse ecologisch econoom Tim Jackson aan de vooravond van de verkiezingen. ‘We moeten de overgang maken naar een duurzame samenleving.’
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October 9, 2025 at 6:18 AM
Postgrowth-econoom Tim Jackson: ‘We hebben meer zorg nodig, niet nog meer rijkdom’
www.volkskrant.nl/economie/pos... maar hier worden geen debatten over gevierd. Zou wel zo fijn zijn.
www.volkskrant.nl/economie/pos... maar hier worden geen debatten over gevierd. Zou wel zo fijn zijn.
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#RoutledgeRevisited
Prosperity Without Growth
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"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
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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
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October 9, 2025 at 1:00 PM
#RoutledgeRevisited
Prosperity Without Growth
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"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
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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
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Britain’s food is cheap, but farmers are squeezed & too many people can’t afford a healthy diet. In this @ffc-commission.bsky.social podcast by Will Evans, @timjackson.org.uk and Emily Norton discuss the true cost of cheap food + how to create a fairer, healthier system. → cusp.ac.uk/themes/food/...
We Need To Talk About... Cheap Food | Podcast with Tim Jackson and Emily Norton, hosted by Will Evans
Britain’s food is cheap, but farmers are squeezed and too many people can’t afford a healthy diet. In this podcast, Will Evans, Emily Norton and Tim Jackson ...
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September 17, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Britain’s food is cheap, but farmers are squeezed & too many people can’t afford a healthy diet. In this @ffc-commission.bsky.social podcast by Will Evans, @timjackson.org.uk and Emily Norton discuss the true cost of cheap food + how to create a fairer, healthier system. → cusp.ac.uk/themes/food/...
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We are always told to be more productive and successful. But this takes a toll on our physical and mental health. | https://bit.ly/3VfvQen
Join professor Catherine Liu, economist Tim Jackson, and journalist David Goodhart. to debate how to build hope in a world that doesn't care.
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Join professor Catherine Liu, economist Tim Jackson, and journalist David Goodhart. to debate how to build hope in a world that doesn't care.
#medsky #polsky
A world that cares
We are constantly told to be more productive, more efficient and more successful. This pursuit of individual perfection, however, is taking its toll on our physical and mental well-being. And whilst w...
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September 15, 2025 at 5:30 PM
We are always told to be more productive and successful. But this takes a toll on our physical and mental health. | https://bit.ly/3VfvQen
Join professor Catherine Liu, economist Tim Jackson, and journalist David Goodhart. to debate how to build hope in a world that doesn't care.
#medsky #polsky
Join professor Catherine Liu, economist Tim Jackson, and journalist David Goodhart. to debate how to build hope in a world that doesn't care.
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🔔🚨 “The call for cheap food is a weapon of a dysfunctional system.”
🎧 Hear the full conversation at 👉https://ffcc.co.uk/conversations/we-need-to-talk-about-cheap-food
🎧 Hear the full conversation at 👉https://ffcc.co.uk/conversations/we-need-to-talk-about-cheap-food
September 11, 2025 at 3:35 PM
🔔🚨 “The call for cheap food is a weapon of a dysfunctional system.”
🎧 Hear the full conversation at 👉https://ffcc.co.uk/conversations/we-need-to-talk-about-cheap-food
🎧 Hear the full conversation at 👉https://ffcc.co.uk/conversations/we-need-to-talk-about-cheap-food
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Will prosperity ever be measured in health, not wealth?—Join @timjackson.org.uk & @kateraworth.bsky.social at The Conduit to explore an economy organised around care, not growth—and why it’s urgently needed for people & the planet.
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The Care Economy: Tim Jackson in conversation with Kate Raworth
Join renowned economists Tim Jackson and Kate Raworth at The Conduit for a thought-provoking event asking: what if prosperity were measured in health, not w ...
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September 5, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Will prosperity ever be measured in health, not wealth?—Join @timjackson.org.uk & @kateraworth.bsky.social at The Conduit to explore an economy organised around care, not growth—and why it’s urgently needed for people & the planet.
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"But what happens to our economy when growth itself is increasingly hard to come by? What happens to our politics when we have no policies for a post-growth world? ... And what happens to our science when such questions are deemed to be outside the remit of inquiry?" - @timjackson.org.uk
📚 The latest CUSP Newsletter is out! Alongside a round-up of news from across our network, CUSP co-director @timjackson.org.uk reflects on the Centre’s 10th anniversary—and warns of a troubling shift in research funding away from #postgrowth inquiry.
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State of the Art | CUSP Newsletter, September 2025
As CUSP turns ten, Tim Jackson highlights the troubling shift in UK research funding away from post-growth inquiry. He argues that questioning growth remains vital in an era of climate crisis, inequal...
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September 10, 2025 at 1:13 AM
"But what happens to our economy when growth itself is increasingly hard to come by? What happens to our politics when we have no policies for a post-growth world? ... And what happens to our science when such questions are deemed to be outside the remit of inquiry?" - @timjackson.org.uk
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📚 The latest CUSP Newsletter is out! Alongside a round-up of news from across our network, CUSP co-director @timjackson.org.uk reflects on the Centre’s 10th anniversary—and warns of a troubling shift in research funding away from #postgrowth inquiry.
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State of the Art | CUSP Newsletter, September 2025
As CUSP turns ten, Tim Jackson highlights the troubling shift in UK research funding away from post-growth inquiry. He argues that questioning growth remains vital in an era of climate crisis, inequal...
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September 9, 2025 at 12:55 PM
📚 The latest CUSP Newsletter is out! Alongside a round-up of news from across our network, CUSP co-director @timjackson.org.uk reflects on the Centre’s 10th anniversary—and warns of a troubling shift in research funding away from #postgrowth inquiry.
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He will talk to us about his book The Care Economy, which not only explains why wealth and GDP-growth should not be an aim of policy making, but - more positively - why health (broadly understood) and thus care, should be the central purpose.
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Tim Jackson
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September 8, 2025 at 12:58 PM
He will talk to us about his book The Care Economy, which not only explains why wealth and GDP-growth should not be an aim of policy making, but - more positively - why health (broadly understood) and thus care, should be the central purpose.
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Public professionals and academics interested in #Postgrowth and #degrowth, based in the Netherlands (or nearby):
Tuesday 23 September Tim Jackson, will visit Utrecht. We will hold an expert meeting in the morning. For more information, see visions-for-the-future.sites.uu.nl/events/tim-j...
Tuesday 23 September Tim Jackson, will visit Utrecht. We will hold an expert meeting in the morning. For more information, see visions-for-the-future.sites.uu.nl/events/tim-j...
Tim Jackson on The Care Economy – a meeting for policy advisors, professionals in the public domain, and academics
Utrecht (Universiteitsmuseum), Tuesday 23 September, 10.00-12.00 Care is the foundation of organic life. But its fate in the economy is precarious and uncertain. In our hearts it’s honoured as an irre...
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September 8, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Public professionals and academics interested in #Postgrowth and #degrowth, based in the Netherlands (or nearby):
Tuesday 23 September Tim Jackson, will visit Utrecht. We will hold an expert meeting in the morning. For more information, see visions-for-the-future.sites.uu.nl/events/tim-j...
Tuesday 23 September Tim Jackson, will visit Utrecht. We will hold an expert meeting in the morning. For more information, see visions-for-the-future.sites.uu.nl/events/tim-j...
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In our podcasts we like to recommend books and here are some of our recommendations from our latest, including books by Nancy Folbre, Marilyn Waring, @devikadutt.bsky.social @ingridhk.bsky.social, @cacrisalves.bsky.social, @surbhikesar.bsky.social, @timjackson.org.uk & @clubofrome.org. #EconSky
September 2, 2025 at 8:37 AM
In our podcasts we like to recommend books and here are some of our recommendations from our latest, including books by Nancy Folbre, Marilyn Waring, @devikadutt.bsky.social @ingridhk.bsky.social, @cacrisalves.bsky.social, @surbhikesar.bsky.social, @timjackson.org.uk & @clubofrome.org. #EconSky
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Wie sähe eine grundlegende Neuausrichtung unseres Wirtschaftssystems aus, die endlich Menschen und ihre Gesundheit über das Streben nach Profit stellt?
🎙Um diese Frage dreht sich der zweite Teil der Doppelfolge des oekom podcasts mit Texten von @timjackson.org.uk.
🎙Um diese Frage dreht sich der zweite Teil der Doppelfolge des oekom podcasts mit Texten von @timjackson.org.uk.
August 29, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Wie sähe eine grundlegende Neuausrichtung unseres Wirtschaftssystems aus, die endlich Menschen und ihre Gesundheit über das Streben nach Profit stellt?
🎙Um diese Frage dreht sich der zweite Teil der Doppelfolge des oekom podcasts mit Texten von @timjackson.org.uk.
🎙Um diese Frage dreht sich der zweite Teil der Doppelfolge des oekom podcasts mit Texten von @timjackson.org.uk.
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ESRC ‘bar against’ degrowth research branded ‘anti-scientific’.
Research council leader signals shift against funding projects that question benefits of economic growth.
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Research council leader signals shift against funding projects that question benefits of economic growth.
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ESRC ‘bar against’ degrowth research branded ‘anti-scientific’ - Research Professional News
Research council leader signals shift against funding projects that question benefits of economic growth
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August 28, 2025 at 9:32 AM
ESRC ‘bar against’ degrowth research branded ‘anti-scientific’.
Research council leader signals shift against funding projects that question benefits of economic growth.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-r...
Research council leader signals shift against funding projects that question benefits of economic growth.
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🎧 PODCAST: Is Prosperity Possible Without Growth? In an age of environmental crisis and rising inequality, is our obsession with economic growth doing more harm than good? Tim Jackson of @cusp.ac.uk on why rethinking our values may be the most important decision we face.
Prosperity Possible Without Growth? | Intelligence Squared podcast with Tim Jackson
In his latest book The Care Economy, Jackson issues the powerful warning: our fixation on growth has come at the cost of the most vital parts of our lives—c ...
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August 27, 2025 at 9:28 AM
🎧 PODCAST: Is Prosperity Possible Without Growth? In an age of environmental crisis and rising inequality, is our obsession with economic growth doing more harm than good? Tim Jackson of @cusp.ac.uk on why rethinking our values may be the most important decision we face.
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The podcast about Herman Daly will be out soon now! I'm so honored to have been included by @c40cities.bsky.social in this series along with @timjackson.org.uk and @kateraworth.bsky.social. Daly's legacy is the mycelium feeding our work and that of so many others. Link to the teaser: lnk.to/HDteaser
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TEASER - Going Steady: Happy Birthday, Herman Daly
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August 19, 2025 at 12:35 AM
The podcast about Herman Daly will be out soon now! I'm so honored to have been included by @c40cities.bsky.social in this series along with @timjackson.org.uk and @kateraworth.bsky.social. Daly's legacy is the mycelium feeding our work and that of so many others. Link to the teaser: lnk.to/HDteaser
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www.sufficiencywellbeing.com/p/the-care-e... interview with @timjackson.org.uk
The Care Economy
Vlad Bunea: Your new book, The Care Economy, reads as a thoughtful meditation about the human condition, a fireside lesson about the purpose of our economic system, and an invitation to construct a ve...
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August 24, 2025 at 11:32 PM
www.sufficiencywellbeing.com/p/the-care-e... interview with @timjackson.org.uk
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💪 Citizens in #TheFoodConversation want businesses help to account, so that profit doesn’t come before people or planet. Our report with @timjackson.org.uk shows Big Food is a false economy, with unhealthy food costing £268bn every year – almost equivalent to the total annual UK healthcare spend.
July 30, 2025 at 8:44 AM
💪 Citizens in #TheFoodConversation want businesses help to account, so that profit doesn’t come before people or planet. Our report with @timjackson.org.uk shows Big Food is a false economy, with unhealthy food costing £268bn every year – almost equivalent to the total annual UK healthcare spend.
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🎧 Great episode on Big Food & the power these companies wield in our society.
🧩 As @bmj.com's Jennifer Richardson says: Big Food has an industry playbook they use to delay or water down legislation and protect shareholder profit – from corporate social responsibility spin to regulatory loopholes.
🧩 As @bmj.com's Jennifer Richardson says: Big Food has an industry playbook they use to delay or water down legislation and protect shareholder profit – from corporate social responsibility spin to regulatory loopholes.
July 30, 2025 at 8:44 AM
🎧 Great episode on Big Food & the power these companies wield in our society.
🧩 As @bmj.com's Jennifer Richardson says: Big Food has an industry playbook they use to delay or water down legislation and protect shareholder profit – from corporate social responsibility spin to regulatory loopholes.
🧩 As @bmj.com's Jennifer Richardson says: Big Food has an industry playbook they use to delay or water down legislation and protect shareholder profit – from corporate social responsibility spin to regulatory loopholes.
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Creating a Care Economy—This podcast with @timjackson.org.uk explores how the pandemic and recent global conflicts underscore care’s critical importance to our lives, yet reveal its consistent neglect in economic systems focused on growth and profit. → cusp.ac.uk/themes/aetw/... #TheCareEconomy
Creating a Care Economy | The Deep Dive podcast with Tim Jackson
In this episode of The Deep Dive, host Phillip McKenzie speaks with Tim Jackson about his latest book, The Care Economy. The conversation examines how the p ...
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August 5, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Creating a Care Economy—This podcast with @timjackson.org.uk explores how the pandemic and recent global conflicts underscore care’s critical importance to our lives, yet reveal its consistent neglect in economic systems focused on growth and profit. → cusp.ac.uk/themes/aetw/... #TheCareEconomy
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📢 Listen to ‘Big Food, Big Power’ here 👉 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
And read 'The False Economy of Big Food' here 👉 ffcc.co.uk/publications...
And read 'The False Economy of Big Food' here 👉 ffcc.co.uk/publications...
The False Economy of Big Food
And the case for a new food economy
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July 30, 2025 at 8:44 AM
📢 Listen to ‘Big Food, Big Power’ here 👉 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
And read 'The False Economy of Big Food' here 👉 ffcc.co.uk/publications...
And read 'The False Economy of Big Food' here 👉 ffcc.co.uk/publications...
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Public debt and the post-growth challenge: the case for a flexible monetary and fiscal policy framework | New working paper by Andrew Jackson and @timjackson.org.uk ➡️ cusp.ac.uk/themes/aetw/...
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July 23, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Public debt and the post-growth challenge: the case for a flexible monetary and fiscal policy framework | New working paper by Andrew Jackson and @timjackson.org.uk ➡️ cusp.ac.uk/themes/aetw/...
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