From Growth to Care | Tim Jackson in conversation with Jen Morgan

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.

About

Tim Jackson is Professor Emeritus at the University of Surrey and co-Director CUSP. His work as Economics Commissioner on the UK government’s Sustainable Development Commission culminated in the publication of a ground-breaking and provocative bestseller Prosperity without Growth which was a Financial Times book of the year in 2010 and UnHerd’s economics book of the decade in 2019. His other books include Post Growth – Life after Capitalism which won the Eric Zencey prize for ecological economics in 2022 and The Care Economy, published earlier this year by Polity Press. In addition to his academic work, Tim is an award-winning dramatist with numerous radio-writing credits for the BBC.

Jen Morgan works at The NHS Confederation’s Q community as Head of System Wide Change and her work is about helping leaders to create the enabling conditions to improve health and care. Jen holds an MSc in Responsibility and Business Practice and in her spare time she also leads wellbeing nature retreats for NHS front-line workers.