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Now we know for sure what a world of Emperor’s new clothes the global economy has been, Tim Jackson’s book is a most timely one. His view of our financial future – a world where we can prosper without constant economic growth is balm to the soul. The situation can and must be changed, Tim Jackson’s arguments showing we can also create an economically successful world without overloading the environment.
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Tim Jackson Press Reviews
'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
