Late capitalism’s dangerous endgame has a body count. The mantra of growth is failing us. Not because we haven’t tried hard enough. But because it’s built on broken promises. In his blog for the Institute of Arts and Ideas, Tim Jackson points to another economics that views prosperity as health and economy as care.

Chronic disease, early onset multimorbidity and widening inequality aren’t healthcare failures—they reflect the conditions in which health is produced. Tim Jackson’s working paper for Enlighten’s NHS 2048 initiative reframes prosperity as health and calls for recentring care as essential infrastructure to align policy with long-term health outcomes.

Jen Morgan from the NHS Confederation’s Q Community talks with Prof Tim Jackson about his book The Care Economy. They explore what prosperity really means—moving beyond growth to ask: what if the economy was built around care? Tim reflects on health, violence, and the radical idea that capitalism itself may be a disease in need of healing.

In his presentation at the University of Riga, Tim Jackson argues that prosperity as wealth is failing us—and proposes a radical alternative: prosperity as health, economy as care. A keynote exploring what becomes possible when we recentre the work of attention, restoration and balance in economic life.

Tim Jackson joined BBC One’s Sunday Morning Live for a live debate on whether economic growth harms the planet, following renewed international discussion about moving beyond GDP as the main measure of progress.

In this interview with Olivier Berruyer for Élucid, Tim Jackson explores how capitalism has made growth and consumption central to our idea of happiness—while relying on permanent dissatisfaction to keep going. Leaving consumerism behind, he suggests, is not a step backwards, but an essential step towards a truly prosperous and sustainable society.

Climate breakdown should be understood as a profound abdication of care, argues Tim Jackson in an opinion piece commissioned for the British Medical Journal’s (BMJ’s) new year special issue on climate breakdown. 

This month sees the audiobook release of Tim Jackson’s environmental drama series Cry of the Bittern. Originally broadcast on BBC Radio 4, the series has been re-released by Penguin and is now available on all major audiobook platforms. Set against the atmospheric backdrop of the Norfolk fens, the full-cast mystery explores the tensions between environmental protection and economic development.

Tim Jackson speaking at the Economic Research Council about The Care Economy, exploring how valuing care as a social and economic foundation can reshape our understanding of prosperity, community, and sustainability in a world beyond growth.

Kristina Mänd-Lakhiani speaks with Tim to explore why modern economics often overlooks care work, how the COVID-19 pandemic exposed the essential foundations of society, and what a truly sustainable, care-centered economy might look like in practice, including the social, economic, and cultural shifts required to achieve it.