Book discussion | Waterstones Gower Street, London | 18 March 2026, 6.30pm
Waterstones Gower Street hosted an evening with CUSP co-director Tim Jackson, in conversation with Jen Morgan of the NHS Confederation’s Q project, to discuss his latest book, The Care Economy.
Together, they dive into the heart of what prosperity really means—moving beyond growth to ask: what if the economy was built around care? Tim shares the personal and philosophical journey behind the book, reflecting on themes of health, symbolic meaning, violence, and the radical idea that capitalism itself might be a kind of disease in need of healing. They explore why care has been systematically locked out of our economic system—and what it would take to bring it back in.
This is a rich, thoughtful dialogue about how we might reimagine economy, health, and our shared humanity in a time of crisis.
This post also appeared on the CUSP website.
