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Prof Tim Jackson
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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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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.

timjackson.org.uk/the-care-eco...
Tim Jackson
timjackson.org.uk
September 8, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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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
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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...
The False Economy of Big Food
And the case for a new food economy
ffcc.co.uk
July 30, 2025 at 8:44 AM