Tim Jackson (economist)

For more than twenty five years, he has worked internationally on sustainable consumption and production. During five years at the Stockholm Environment Institute in the early 1990s, he pioneered the concept of preventative environmental management outlined in his 1996 book Material Concerns – pollution profit and quality of life.[https://www.routledge.com/Material-Concerns-Pollution-Profit-and-Quality-of-Life/Jackson/p/book/9780415132497 Material concerns: pollution, profit, and quality of life] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180201085225/https://www.routledge.com/Material-Concerns-Pollution-Profit-and-Quality-of-Life/Jackson/p/book/9780415132497 |date=1 February 2018 }} Stockholm Environment Institute; London, New York: Routledge, 1996]

From 1995 to 2000, Jackson held an EPSRC fellowship on the Thermodynamics of Clean Technologies.

From 2003 to 2005, he held a Professorial Research Fellowship on the social psychology of sustainable consumption.

From 2006 to 2011 Jackson was Director of the ESRC Research group on Lifestyles, Values and Environment.

From 2010 to 2014, he was Director of the Sustainable Lifestyles Research Group.

From 2013 to 2017, he was ESRC Professioral Research Fellow on Prosperity and Sustainability in the Green Economy.[http://timjackson.org.uk/about/ Resumée] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180122235036/http://timjackson.org.uk/about/ |date=22 January 2018 }} on TimJackson.org.uk. (accessed 2018-01-22). Since 2018 he sits on the advisory board of the ZOE Institute for Future-fit Economies.{{Cite web |title=Prof Tim Jackson – ZOE Institute for Future-fit Economies |url=https://zoe-institut.de/en/person/tim-jachson/ |access-date=2023-01-25 |language=}}

Since 2003, his research has focused on consumption, lifestyle and sustainability. In 2005, the Sustainable Development Research Network[http://www.sd-research.org.uk Homepage] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120530211010/http://www.sd-research.org.uk/ |date=30 May 2012 }} of the Sustainable Development Research Network published his widely cited review Motivating Sustainable Consumption.[http://www.sd-research.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/motivatingscfinal_000.pdf Motivating Sustainable Consumption] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130424133516/http://www.sd-research.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/motivatingscfinal_000.pdf |date=24 April 2013 }} Report to the Sustainable Development Research Network | January 2005 A respective Earthscan 'Reader' in Sustainable Consumption was issued in 2006.[https://www.routledge.com/The-Earthscan-Reader-on-Sustainable-Consumption/Jackson/p/book/9781844071647 The Earthscan Reader in Sustainable Consumption] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180201090756/https://www.routledge.com/The-Earthscan-Reader-on-Sustainable-Consumption/Jackson/p/book/9781844071647 |date=1 February 2018 }} | Earthscan, 2006 During 2006 and 2007 Tim Jackson was advisor and a regular contributor to BBC Newsnight's Ethical Man series.[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/newsnight/ethical_man/6553949.stm Carbon Footprint for Newsnight's Ethical Man Series] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131104172921/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/newsnight/ethical_man/6553949.stm |date=4 November 2013 }} | last visited: 25 May 2012

In his function as Economics Commissioner on the Sustainable Development Commission,[http://www.neweconomics.org/about/tim-jackson Tim Jackson] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110920043327/http://www.neweconomics.org/about/tim-jackson |date=20 September 2011 }} | the new economics foundation | neweconomics.org | last visited: 25 May 2012 he authored a controversial report, later published by Earthscan/Routledge as Prosperity Without Growth: Economics for a Finite Planet (2009). A substantially revised second edition (Prosperity Without Growth: Foundations for the Economy of Tomorrow) was published in January 2017.{{Cite web|url=https://www.routledge.com/posts/12046|title=Routledge {{!}} Featured Author: Tim Jackson|website=Routledge|access-date=11 June 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180805203216/https://www.routledge.com/posts/12046|archive-date=5 August 2018|url-status=live|df=dmy-all}} By arguing that "prosperity – in any meaningful sense of the word – transcends material concerns",[https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-14972015 Has Western capitalism failed?] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180618024822/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-14972015 |date=18 June 2018 }} Tim Jackson for BBC 22 September 2011 | last visited: 25 May 2012 the book summarises the evidence showing that, beyond a certain point, growth does not increase human wellbeing. Prosperity without Growth analyses the complex relationships between growth, environmental crises and social recession. It proposes a route to a sustainable economy, and argues for a redefinition of "prosperity" in light of the evidence on what really contributes to people's wellbeing.[http://www.sd-commission.org.uk/publications.php?id=914 Prosperity without Growth? – The transition to a sustainable economy] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150301072824/http://www.sd-commission.org.uk/publications.php?id=914 |date=1 March 2015 }} Report for the SDC 03.2011 | last visited: 25 May 2012 In the wake of technological progress and the pursuit of ever-increasing profits, financial growth and its "skewed priorities" are linked to human exploitation and environmental destruction, which Jackson refers to as the "age of irresponsibility".{{Cite journal|last=Walker|first=Stuart|year=2012|title=The Object of Nightingales: Design Values for a Meaningful Material Culture|journal=Design and Culture|volume=4|issue=2|pages=149–170|doi=10.2752/175470812X13281948975459|s2cid=145281245}} "The clearest message from the financial crisis of 2008 is that our current model of economic success is fundamentally flawed. For the advanced economies of the Western world, prosperity without growth is no longer a utopian dream. It is a financial and ecological necessity."[http://www.nfft.hu/dynamic/20090522_pwg_summary_eng.pdf Prosperity without Growth?] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120514204606/http://www.nfft.hu/dynamic/20090522_pwg_summary_eng.pdf |date=14 May 2012 }} Report | Summary | last visited: 25 May 2012

The book was described by Le Monde as "one of the most outstanding pieces of environmental economics literature in recent years."{{Cite web |url=https://www.routledge.com/Prosperity-without-Growth-Foundations-for-the-Economy-of-Tomorrow/Jackson/p/book/9781138935419 |title=Routledge Website for Prosperity Without Growth |access-date=31 January 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180201085250/https://www.routledge.com/Prosperity-without-Growth-Foundations-for-the-Economy-of-Tomorrow/Jackson/p/book/9781138935419 |archive-date=1 February 2018 |url-status=live |df=dmy-all }} The sociologist Anthony Giddens referred to it as "a must-read for anyone concerned with issues of climate change and sustainability – bold, original and comprehensive." Prosperity without Growth has been translated into 17 languages including Swedish, German, French, Greek, Spanish, Italian, Dutch, and Chinese.

Tim Jackson was the founder and director of RESOLVE (Research Group on Lifestyles Values and Environment),[http://resolve.sustainablelifestyles.ac.uk RESOLVE] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180823174330/http://resolve.sustainablelifestyles.ac.uk/ |date=23 August 2018 }} | Research Group on Lifestyles Values and Environment | resolve.sustainablelifestyles.ac.uk | last visited: 3 April 2014 of its follow-on project: the Defra/ESRC Sustainable Lifestyles Research Group (SLRG),[http://www.sustainablelifestyles.ac.uk SLRG] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121120131038/http://www.sustainablelifestyles.ac.uk/ |date=20 November 2012 }} Sustainable Lifestyles Research Group | last visited: 3 April 2014 and held an ERSC Professorial Fellowship on Prosperity and Sustainability in the Green Economy (PASSAGE).{{Cite web|title=PASSAGE project website|url=http://prosperitas.org.uk/|access-date=23 Oct 2020|website=Prosperity and Sustainability in the Green Economy}} His current work includes – in collaboration with Peter Victor of York University in Toronto[http://www.pvictor.com/MWG/Home_MWG.html Peter Victor] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120506105452/http://www.pvictor.com/MWG/Home_MWG.html |date=6 May 2012 }} | Official Website | last visited: 27 May 2012 – the development of stock-flow consistent (SFC) macroeconomic simulation models, showing that improved environmental and social outcomes are possible even as the growth rate declines to zero.[https://timjackson.org.uk/ecological-economics/macro/ Post-Growth Economics] | Overview of modelling work with Prof Peter Victor | www.timjackson.org.uk | last visited: 23 October 2020{{Cite journal|date=2020-11-01|title=The Transition to a Sustainable Prosperity-A Stock-Flow-Consistent Ecological Macroeconomic Model for Canada|journal=Ecological Economics|language=en|volume=177|pages=106787|doi=10.1016/j.ecolecon.2020.106787|issn=0921-8009|doi-access=free |last1=Jackson |first1=Tim |last2=Victor |first2=Peter A. |bibcode=2020EcoEc.17706787J }}

In addition to his academic and advisory work,[https://www.surrey.ac.uk/ces/people/tim_jackson/ Tim Jackson] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180201081221/https://www.surrey.ac.uk/ces/people/tim_jackson/ |date=1 February 2018 }} at the University of Surrey | last visited: 17 April 2013 Jackson is a playwright with numerous BBC Radio writing credits to his name.[http://timjackson.org.uk/plays/ Tim Jackson's plays] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180201192844/http://timjackson.org.uk/plays/ |date=1 February 2018 }} listed on official website | last visited: 10 September 2014 His 30 episode environmental drama series Cry of the Bittern won a 1997 Public Awareness of Science (PAWS) Drama Award. The Language of Flowers, a drama documentary about the life and work of the 18th-century poet Christopher Smart, won the 2004 Prix Marulić. Jackson's most recent play, Variations, written around a Beethoven sonata of the same name, won the 2007 Grand Prix Marulić[https://archive.today/20120801143720/http://www.hrt.hr/prixmarulic/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=56:2007&catid=46:arhiva&Itemid=61&lang=en Prix Marulić 2007] | last visited: 25 May 2012 and was longlisted for the 2008 Sony awards.[http://www.sustainablelifestyles.ac.uk/team/tim-jackson Tim Jackson] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130511215614/http://www.sustainablelifestyles.ac.uk/team/tim-jackson |date=11 May 2013 }} on SLRG | www.sustainablelifestyles.ac.uk

• Post Growth—Life after capitalism. Cambridge: Polity Press. March 2021.
• The Transition to a Sustainable Prosperity-A Stock-Flow-Consistent Ecological Macroeconomic Model for Canada. Tim Jackson and Peter Victor. Ecological Economics, Vol 177.
• Wellbeing Matters—Tackling growth dependency. A Policy Briefing for the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Limits to Growth. Tim Jackson, February 2020.{{cite web |last1=Jackson |first1=Tim |title=Wellbeing Matters—Tackling growth dependency. A Policy Briefing. |date=26 February 2020 |url=https://limits2growth.org.uk/publication/wellbeing-matters-tackling-growth-dependency-briefing-paper/ |publisher=All-Party Parliamentary Group on Limits to Growth |access-date=23 Oct 2020}}
• The Transition to a Sustainable Prosperity—A Stock-Flow-Consistent Ecological Macroeconomic Model for Canada. Tim Jackson and Peter Victor. In Ecological Economics, July 2020.{{cite journal |last1=Jackson |first1=Tim |title=The Transition to a Sustainable Prosperity—A Stock-Flow-Consistent Ecological Macroeconomic Model for Canada |journal=Ecological Economics |date=July 2020 |volume=177 |page=106787 |doi=10.1016/j.ecolecon.2020.106787 |url=https://www.cusp.ac.uk/themes/s2/paper-tj-pv-lowgrowsfc/ |access-date=23 Oct 2020|doi-access=free |bibcode=2020EcoEc.17706787J }}
• The Post-Growth Challenge — Secular Stagnation, Inequality and the Limits to Growth. Tim Jackson, CUSP Working Paper No 12. Guildford: University of Surrey. May 2018.{{Cite web|url=https://www.cusp.ac.uk/themes/aetw/wp12/|title=The Post-Growth Challenge—Secular Stagnation, Inequality and the Limits to Growth|last=Jackson|first=Tim|date=13 May 2018|access-date=6 July 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180706200533/https://www.cusp.ac.uk/themes/aetw/wp12/|archive-date=6 July 2018|url-status=live|df=dmy-all}}
• Confronting inequality in a post-growth world – basic income, factor substitution and the future of work. Tim Jackson, and Peter Victor. CUSP Working Paper No 11. Guildford: University of Surrey. April 2018.{{Cite web|url=https://timjackson.org.uk/sigma-inequality/|title=Confronting inequality in a post-growth world – basic income, factor substitution and the future of work|last=Jackson|first=Tim|date=April 2018|access-date=6 July 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180706163022/https://timjackson.org.uk/sigma-inequality/|archive-date=6 July 2018|url-status=live|df=dmy-all}}
• Does slow growth increase inequality? Some reflections on Piketty’s ‘fundamental’ laws of capitalism, Tim Jackson and Peter Victor, PASSAGE Working Paper 14-01, Guildford: University of Surrey, August 2014[http://www.prosperitas.org.uk/assets/does-slow-growth-increase-inequality---paper.pdf Does slow growth increase inequality? Some reflections on Piketty’s ‘fundamental’ laws of capitalism] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140910195417/http://www.prosperitas.org.uk/assets/does-slow-growth-increase-inequality---paper.pdf |date=10 September 2014 }}, Tim Jackson and Peter Victor, PASSAGE Working Paper 14-01, Guildford: University of Surrey, August 2014
• Green economy at community scale, Tim Jackson and Peter Victor, Metcalf Foundation: Toronto, November 2013[http://metcalffoundation.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/GreenEconomy.pdf Green economy at a community scale] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131126040811/http://metcalffoundation.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/GreenEconomy.pdf |date=26 November 2013 }}, Tim Jackson and Peter Victor, Metcalf Foundation: Toronto, November 2013
• Developing an Ecological Macroeconomics, Tim Jackson and Peter Victor, Centre for International Governance Innovation, cigionline.org, 11 September 2013[https://www.cigionline.org/publications/developing-ecological-macroeconomics Developing an Ecological Macroeconomics] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180201075152/https://www.cigionline.org/publications/developing-ecological-macroeconomics |date=1 February 2018 }}, Tim Jackson and Peter Victor, Centre for International Governance Innovation, cigionline.org, 11 September 2013
• Angst essen Seele auf – Escaping the 'iron cage' of consumerism, Tim Jackson, Wuppertal Spezial (Vol 48), Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy[http://www.sustainablelifestyles.ac.uk/sites/default/files/newsdocs/tj_2014_-_angste_essen_seele_auf_in-_ws_48.pdf Angst essen Seele auf – Escaping the 'iron cage' of consumerism] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140407062556/http://www.sustainablelifestyles.ac.uk/sites/default/files/newsdocs/tj_2014_-_angste_essen_seele_auf_in-_ws_48.pdf |date=7 April 2014 }}, Tim Jackson, Wuppertal Spezial (Vol 48), Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy
• Consumerism as Theodicy – an exploration of religions and secular meaning functions (with M. Pepper). In Thomas, L (ed): Consuming Paradise. Oxford: Palgrave-Macmillan, 2010.
• New economic model needed not relentless consumer demand, Tim Jackson for The Guardian Blog, 17 January 2013[https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/blog/new-economic-model-not-consumer-demand-capitalism?intcmp=122 New economic model needed not relentless consumer demand]{{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160927230025/https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/blog/new-economic-model-not-consumer-demand-capitalism?intcmp=122 |date=27 September 2016 }}, Tim Jackson for The Guardian Blog, 17 January 2013
• The Cinderella economy: an answer to unsustainable growth?, Tim Jackson for The Ecologist, 27 July 2012[https://theecologist.org/2012/jul/27/cinderella-economy-answer-unsustainable-growth The Cinderella economy: an answer to unsustainable growth?] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180201075424/https://theecologist.org/2012/jul/27/cinderella-economy-answer-unsustainable-growth |date=1 February 2018 }}, Tim Jackson for The Ecologist, 27 July 2012
• Let's be less productive, Tim Jackson for The New York Times, 26 May 2012[https://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/27/opinion/sunday/lets-be-less-productive.html Let's be less productive] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180201213113/http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/27/opinion/sunday/lets-be-less-productive.html |date=1 February 2018 }}, Tim Jackson for The New York Times, 26 May 2012
• Dismount and die? The paradox of sustainable living, Tim Jackson for The Guardian, 29 June 2011[https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/consumer-capitalism-living-sustainably Dismount and die? The paradox of sustainable living] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140910203131/http://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/consumer-capitalism-living-sustainably |date=10 September 2014 }}, Tim Jackson for The Guardian, 29 June 2011
• Prosperity Without Growth: Economics for a Finite Planet. London and New York: Earthscan/Routledge, 2009.
• Second edition with the title Prosperity Without Growth: Foundations for the Economy of Tomorrow in 2017.
• The Earthscan Reader on Sustainable Consumption. London and New York: Earthscan/Routledge, 2006[https://www.routledge.com/The-Earthscan-Reader-on-Sustainable-Consumption/Jackson/p/book/9781844071647 The Earthscan Reader in Sustainable Consumption] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180201090756/https://www.routledge.com/The-Earthscan-Reader-on-Sustainable-Consumption/Jackson/p/book/9781844071647 |date=1 February 2018 }}, London, New York: Earthscan/Routledge, 2006
• Material concerns: pollution, profit, and quality of life. SEI, Stockholm Environment Institute; London, New York: Routledge, 1996.

Prior to the 2015 general election, he was one of several celebrities who endorsed the parliamentary candidacy of the Green Party's Caroline Lucas.{{cite news | url=https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/apr/24/celebrities-sign-statement-support-caroline-lucas-not-green-party | title=Celebrities sign statement of support for Caroline Lucas – but not the Greens | work=The Guardian | location=London | first=Jessica | last=Elgot | date=24 April 2015 | access-date=22 July 2015 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150723035626/http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/apr/24/celebrities-sign-statement-support-caroline-lucas-not-green-party | archive-date=23 July 2015 | url-status=live | df=dmy-all }} He was Economics Commissioner{{Cite web|title=Commissioners · About us · Sustainable Development Commission|url=http://www.sd-commission.org.uk/pages/commissioners.html|access-date=2021-04-22|website=www.sd-commission.org.uk}} on the UK's Sustainable Development Commission set up by the Labour Government under Gordon Brown in June 2000 and closed by the Coalition Government in March 2011.{{Cite news|date=2010-07-22|title=UK government axes its sustainability watchdog|language=en-GB|work=BBC News|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-10725394|access-date=2021-04-22}}

• Degrowth
• Post-growth

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• {{Official website}}
• [http://timjackson.org.uk/plays/ List and audio of his plays]
• [https://www.ted.com/talks/tim_jackson_s_economic_reality_check Tim Jackson's Economic Reality Check] on TED
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20160421141315/http://www.abc.net.au/tv/bigideas/stories/2010/07/06/2945103.htm Tim Jackson's Deakin Lecture] | Melbourne, June 2010
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20160303225044/http://www.accountingforsustainability.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Text-of-Professor-Tim-Jacksons-speech-at-the-Accounting-for-Sustainability-Forum-17-December-2009.pdf Tim Jackson at The Prince’s Accounting for Sustainability Forum Seminar] | St James's Palace, December 2009
• [https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/rio-20-tim-jackson-leaders-green-economy?newsfeed=true Rio+20: Tim Jackson on how fear led world leaders to betray green economy] | Jo Confino for The Guardian | 25 June 2012
• [https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/video/consumer-choice-video?INTCMP=SRCH Could less choice be better for the consumer?] | Tim Jackson in Conversation with Matthew Taylor (RSA) and Nigel Salter | August 2011
• [https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2011/aug/22/economic-growth-environment As the dream of economic growth dies, a new plan awaits testing] | George Monbiot for The Guardian | 22 August 2011
• [https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/consumerism-sustainability-short-termism Sustainability depends on breaking free of our consumerist fixation] | Tim Jackson Interview with The Guardian | 2 December 2010
• [http://www.theeuropean-magazine.com/297-jackson-tim/298-prosperity-without-growth Politics Without Creativity Is Not Political] | Tim Jackson Interview with The European
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20120905142326/http://www.sd-commission.org.uk/data/files/publications/prosperity_without_growth_report.pdf Prosperity without Growth? – The transition to a sustainable economy] | Report for the SDC March 2009
• [https://greattransition.org/publication/how-to-kick-the-growth-addiction Tim Jackson interview] with the Great Transition Initiative. April 2017.

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