1. Prosperity without Growth
Tim Jackson
8th October 2010
Berlin 1

2. The Dilemma of Growth Growth is unsustainable
Rockstrom et al, Nature 461, Sept 2009
Growth is unsustainable 2

3. The Dilemma of Growth
Growth is unsustainable
De-growth is unstable 3

4. The Dilemma of Growth Growth is unsustainable De-growth is unstable
the pursuit of labour productivity 4

5. The Myth of Decoupling 5

6. The Myth of Decoupling x 130 improvement CO2/$ < zero by 2100?
Source: Prosperity without growth, Tim Jackson (London, Earthscan 2009)
x 130 improvement
CO2/$ < zero by 2100? 6

7. The Engine of Growth Firms Households Credit shareholder value
creative destruction
Firms
Spending
Income
Increasing
productivity
Investment
Novelty
Price
Credit
Households
status consumption
a life without shame

8. A Better Nature?
Novelty
Other
Self
Tradition

9. Another Prosperity
Prosperity consists in our ability to flourish as human beings – within the ecological limits of a finite planet
material conditions: food , clothing, shelter
social and psychological flourishing: identity, meaning
the role of social goods and public spaces

10. Ecological Investment Ecological Enterprise Ecological Macroeconomics
A Different Economy
Ecological Investment
Ecological Enterprise
Ecological Macroeconomics 10

11. Ecological Investment
low carbon transition
ecological assets
social goods
decent livelihoods 11

12. Ecological Enterprise
providing services
building capabilities
supporting communities
treading lightly 12

13. The Productivity Dilemma
Productivity growth in Europe
Ecological Enterprise
Low-carbon, resource efficient economic activities that provide employment, support communities and contribute to human flourishing 13

14. Every search saves rainforest!
Each free web search saves about 2.4 yd² of rainforest. We have already protected 13,690,860 yd²

15. Ecological Macroeconomics
Ecosystems
Ecological
investment
Ecosystem
services
ecological
productivity
Ecological
enterprise
Participation
Capabilities
improved
flourishing
People

16. Change the social logic
Ecological Footsteps
Governmentality makes sense of and unifies the less v more state positions ?
Why? Because the pursuit of and necessity for distributed structures of administration and power is a direct effect from the hollowing out of state.
Neo-liberal governmentality relies on a quite specific social conversation about the good life. Questioning that strikes at the fault lines of the ‘fractured’ state and represents a direct threat to governmentality. And hence elicits viscerality
The potential to re-structure economic stability is key to escaping the dilemma of governance
Establish the limits
Fix the economics
Change the social logic 16

17. Ecological Footsteps Establish the Limits Fix the Economics
1. Establishing clearly defined resource/emissions caps
2. Fiscal Reform for Sustainability
3. Promoting Technology Transfer and Ecosystem Protection
Fix the Economics
4. Developing the macro-economics of sustainability
5. Investing in public assets and infrastructures
6. Increasing financial and fiscal prudence
7. Improving macro-economic accounting
Change the social logic
8. Sharing the work and improving the work-life balance
9. Tackling systemic inequality
10 Measuring capabilities and flourishing
11 Strengthening human and social capital
12 Reversing the culture of consumerism
Governmentality makes sense of and unifies the less v more state positions ?
Why? Because the pursuit of and necessity for distributed structures of administration and power is a direct effect from the hollowing out of state.
Neo-liberal governmentality relies on a quite specific social conversation about the good life. Questioning that strikes at the fault lines of the ‘fractured’ state and represents a direct threat to governmentality. And hence elicits viscerality
The potential to re-structure economic stability is key to escaping the dilemma of governance 17

18. ‘The crisis doesn’t only make us free to imagine other models, another future, another world. It obliges us to do so.’
President Sarkozy, September 2009