Prosperity without Growth

Foreword 1. Prosperity Lost 2. The Age of Irresponsibility 3. Redefining Prosperity 4. The Dilemma of Growth 5. The Myth of Decoupling 6. The 'Iron Cage' of Consumerism 7. Keynesianism and the 'Green New Deal' 8. Ecological Macro-Economics 9. Flourishing - within Limits 10. Governance for Prosperity 11. The Transition to a Sustainable Economy 12. A Lasting Prosperity Appendices References Endnotes

Tim Jackson leitet die Wirtschaftliche Führungsgruppe der Kommission für Nachhaltige Entwicklung, einem unabhängigen Beirat der Britischen Regierung. Er ist Professor für Nachhaltige Entwicklung im Zentrum für Umweltstrategien an der Universität Surrey. Auf dem Klimagipfel in Kopenhagen erregte sein Vortrag 'Prosperity without Growth' großes Aufsehen.

"'Provokes official thought on the unthinkable. No small accomplishment! I hope this gets the serious attention it deserves.' Professor Herman Daly, author of Steady-State Economics and recipient of the Honorary Right Livelihood Award (Sweden's alternative to the Nobel Prize) 'This might well become as important for sustainable development as the Brundtland Report'. Paul-Marie Boulanger, Director of IDD 'In the teeth of the economic crisis, Tim Jackson has written the most important book that could possibly be written now. Economic growth may be the world's secular religion, but as Jackson eloquently describes, it is a god that is failing today - underperforming for most of the world's people and, for those of us in affluent societies, creating more problems than it is solving. It destroys the environment, fuels a ruthless international search for energy and other resources, and rests on a manufactured consumerism that is not meeting the deepest human needs. Jackson therefore calls upon us not just to restore the economy but to reinvent it, and to realize a true prosperity beyond growth. In this pathbreaking book, Jackson offers a bold agenda for system change.' James Gustave Speth, author of The Bridge at the Edge of the World: Capitalism, the Environment, and Crossing from Crisis to Sustainability 'This is one of the most brilliant analyses I've seen. It is a thoughtful and action-oriented masterpiece, with an eye open to how to overcome resistance to the task ahead.' Arnold Tukker, Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research"