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  • Rural Planning Futures—Principles, Policy and Practice in the UK and Ireland | Edited Collection
    Amy Burnett | Gavin Parker | Ian Mell | John Sturzaker | Mark Scott | Nick Gallent

    Rural Planning Futures—Principles, Policy and Practice in the UK and Ireland | Edited Collection

About

The Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity (CUSP) is a cutting-edge research organisation core-funded by the UK’s Economic and Social Research Council and the Laudes Foundation. It takes the form of a rich international network, drawing together expert partners from academic and non-academic institutions as co-producers of the work programme. The overall research question is: What can prosperity possibly mean in a world of environmental, social and economic limits?—We work with people, policy and business to address this question, developing pragmatic steps towards a shared and lasting prosperity.

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Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity
University of Surrey
Guildford GU2 7XH

Email: info@cusp.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 (0) 1483 684316

 

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Late capitalism's dangerous endgame has a body cou
Late capitalism's dangerous endgame has a body count.
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The mantra of growth is failing us. Not because we haven't tried hard enough. But because it's built on broken promises.⁠
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In his blog for @instituteofartandideas, CUSP co-director @ProfTimJackson points to another economics: one that views prosperity as health + economy as care.
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⭕️ For full article see link in bio.⁠
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#TheCareEconomy #PostGrowth #ProsperityAsHealth #WellbeingEconomy #Degrowth


Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all f
Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty.—Hannah Arendt, 1951⁠
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#QuoteOfTheDay #HannahArendt #CriticalThinking #TheOriginsOfTotalitarianism #Peace


Health systems aren't failing.⁠
They're being aske

Health systems aren't failing.⁠
They're being asked to manage illness generated elsewhere. 🏥⁠
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We built an economy for wealth.⁠
Then asked healthcare to clean up the mess.⁠
Now, that damage lives in our bodies.⁠
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We incentivise companies that profit from disease and privilege treatment over prevention. This "false economy" undermines care—the restorative force that brings us back into balance.⁠
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What if we understood prosperity not as wealth, but as health? ✨⁠
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A new paper by @ProfTimJackson (written for @enlightenscot's #NHS2048 initiative) proposes a simple policy test: Does this intervention move us closer to health—or merely cushion the costs of prosperity understood as wealth?⁠
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⭕️ Read the full paper: cusp.ac.uk/publications (🔗 link in bio)⁠
📄 Read the policy summary: enlighten.scot/nhs-2048⁠
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Reframe prosperity.⁠
Recentre care.⁠
Care isn't a cost.⁠
It's essential infrastructure.⁠
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#TheCareEconomy #ProsperityAsHealth #EconomyAsCare #WellbeingEconomy #PostGrowth #PublicHealth cc @ffc_commission @wellbeingeconomy @weallscotland @carefull_economy


Does economic growth harm the planet? | @BBCSunday
Does economic growth harm the planet? | @BBCSundayMorningLive debate with @ProfTimJackson, @DazeAghaji and Andy Mayer from the Institute of Economic Affairs @ieauk. 

The segment followed renewed international calls to move #beyondGDP as the primary measure of progress, including recent comments from @AntonioGuterres on the need to value environmental sustainability and human wellbeing alongside economic performance.

During the discussion, Tim highlighted the close correlation between rising GDP and increasing environmental pressures, pointing to escalating carbon emissions and the dramatic decline in global biodiversity since the 1970s. He argued that prosperity is better understood as collective health rather than endless expansion—reminding us that we never measure health using just one indicator, so why measure societal success that way?

▶️ Full clip via http://cusp.ac.uk/media (🔝or follow link in bio).

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cc #PostGrowth #Degrowth #WellbeingEconomy  #DoughnutEconomics @uniofsurrey @sociologysurrey @institutesustainability


"For the trouble with lying and deceiving is that
"For the trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. In this sense, truth, even if it does not prevail in public, possesses an ineradicable primacy over all falsehoods."—Hannah Arendt, 1969⁠
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#QuoteOfTheDay #HannahArendt #CriticalThinking #Totalitarianism #CrisesOfTheRepublic #ThoughtsOnPoliticsAndRevolution #TheOriginsOfTotalitarianism #TheLifeOfTheMind #BanalityOfEvil #MenInDarkTimes #Wisdom #Reflection #HumanCivilisation #Humanity #HumanRights #Politics #Peace #Futures #GeoPolitics #InternationalRelations


🎙️Corporate Bodies: Podcast series about the stran
🎙️Corporate Bodies: Podcast series about the strange world of #work.⁠
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Episode 5—The Heart | If the organisation is a body made up of real people, then where or who is its heart? What really is the work that needs to be done? How do we bring our whole selves to it? What is the leadership we need to address the challenges we face? ⁠
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Full episode via ➡️ cusp.ac.uk/media or wherever you get your podcasts from (🔝link in bio).⁠
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A B O U T⁠
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Kate and Mark went into this conversation with Farzana Khan from @healingjusticeldn thinking that they would be talking about the challenges of bringing your whole self to work as a leader. ⁠
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What happened, though, was a deep and expansive conversation about the real work that needs to be done—and how part of that work is being able to be fully yourself—to be “right sized” and fully human. ⁠
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Farzana shares how her work with #PoliticisedSomatics informs her practice and how Healing Justice London is a time-travelling organisation. ⁠
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She shares some of her practices and together we ponder what it means to be able to thrive in the hardness of the work of systems change. ⁠
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cc #CorporateBodiesPodcast #WorkplaceCulture #GoodWork #Workplace #Podcast #OrganisationalDevelopment #NewPodcast #NewEconomics #SustainableBusiness #AlternativeBusiness #SocialEnterprise #SocEnt #wellbeingeconomy #TheCareEconomy #CivicSquare @wellbeingeconomyalliance @sharedassets⁠
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Corporate Bodies is a production by Mark Walton and Kate Swade, edited by @_katierevell. Artwork by @hanorbb. Supported by @CUSP_uk.⁠


📚 The latest CUSP Newsletter is out.⁠
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💡 In his e

📚 The latest CUSP Newsletter is out.⁠
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💡 In his editorial, CUSP co-director @ProfTimJackson reflects on the Centre’s 10th anniversary and the troubling shift in research funding away from #postgrowth inquiry. He argues that questioning growth remains vital in an era of climate crisis, inequality, and political instability.⁠
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🔗 All details → cusp.ac.uk/newsletter (🔝 or link in bio)⁠
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cc #CareEconomy #ProsperityWithoutGrowth #PostGrowthEconomy #Degrowth #WellbeingEconomy #EcologicalEconomics #EconomicsForRebels #RethinkingEconomics #BeyondGrowth #LifeAfterCapitalism #NewEconomics #SustainableWelfare #SustainableLifestyles #PlanetaryBoundaries #GrowthDependency #ManagingWithoutGrowth #SystemChange #Postwachstum #PostCroissance #Decrecimiento #Decroissance #DoughnutEconomics #PostConsumerism #BeyondGDP #Omgroei #ÖkonomieDerFürsorge #PostCrecimiento⁠


Public debt and the post-growth challenge⁠
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New p

Public debt and the post-growth challenge⁠
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New paper by Andrew Jackson and Tim Jackson examines how slower growth in advanced economies may force a choice between fiscal tightening and rising debt. It shows that more flexible approaches to monetary and fiscal policies can better support debt stability and long-term economic, social and environmental goals.⁠
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📖 Full paper via cusp.ac.uk⁠/publications⁠
🔗 Link in bio⁠
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cc ⁠#Postgrowth #PostGrowthFinance #ProsperityWithoutGrowth #Postwachstum #PostCroissance #Omgroei #PostCrecimiento #LifeAfterCapitalism #Degrowth #Decroissance #Decrecimiento #BeyondGDP #BeyondGrowth #PostGrowthEconomy #SystemChange #WellbeingEconomy #EcologicalEconomics #RethinkingEconomics #NewEconomics #ManagingWithoutGrowth #NewEconomy #GrowthDependency #InclusiveProsperity #RethinkingProsperity #SecularStagnation #SustainableWelfare #PlanetaryBoundaries #CareEconomy #TheCareEconomy ⁠
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Cover image: © istock.com/alexsl (modified)⁠
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The Care Economy: Tim Jackson in Conversation with
The Care Economy: Tim Jackson in Conversation with Kate Raworth⁠
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🗓️ Wed 17 Sep, 6pm – 7:30pm⁠
📍 The Conduit, London⁠
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Join renowned economists @ProfTimJackson and #KateRaworth on 17 September 2025 at The Conduit, London, for a thought-provoking event asking: what if prosperity were measured in health, not wealth? Together, they’ll explore how an economy built around care—rather than growth—could transform our societies, markets, and future.⁠
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🎟️ Complimentary tickets via → cusp.ac.uk/events ⁠
🔗 link in bio⁠
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cc #TheCareEconomy #DoughnutEconomics #CareEconomy #CriticalThinking #PostGrowth #ProsperityWithoutGrowth #HumanRights #BeyondGrowth #Degrowth #ÖkonomieDerFürsorge #WellbeingEconomy⁠
#War #CarelessEconomy #Care #Philosophy #SocialPsychology #Postwachstum #PostCroissance #Omgroei #PostCrecimiento #Decroissance #Decrecimiento #SystemChange #BigFood #BigPharma #EcologicalEconomics #RethinkingEconomics #NewEconomics #GrowthDependency ⁠
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Parliamentary Work

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CUSP is acting as the secretariat for the UK All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Limits to Growth. The APPG provides a platform for cross-party dialogue and collaboration on shared and lasting prosperity in a world of environmental, social and economic limits. It aims to contribute to a growing international debate on redefining prosperity and developing new measures of progress. The APPG is chaired by Caroline Lucas MP and Clive Lewis MP, and its membership is drawn from both Houses and all main political parties.

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