Quotes by Tim Jackson - Page 1

For at the end of the day, prosperity goes beyond material pleasures.
Tim Jackson / Economist
Growth
Prosperity
The End Of The Day
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Status-driven, conspicuous consumption thrives from the language of novelty.
Tim Jackson / Economist
Consumption
Novelty
Thrive
Conspicuous
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Every society clings to a myth by which it lives. Ours is the myth of economic growth...
Tim Jackson / Economist
Economic
Growth
Myth
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We spend money we don't have, on things we don't need, to make impressions that don't matter.
Tim Jackson / Economist
Money
Matter
Things
Need
Make
Spend
Impressions
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Questioning growth is deemed to be the act of lunatics, idealists and revolutionaries. But question it we must.
Tim Jackson / Economist
Growth
Questioning
Revolutionary
Deemed
Idealists
Revolutionaries
Lunatics
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If pornographers are among the early adopters of the new technology, then it has definite commercial possibilities.
Tim Jackson / Economist
Technology
Internet
Possibility
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The most staggering linguistic turnabout for me is the one that equates green economy with 'sustained economic growth.'
Tim Jackson / Economist
Economic Growth
Green
Staggering
Linguistic
Sustained
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Our own relentless search for novelty and social status locks us into an iron cage of consumerism. Affluence has itself betrayed us.
Tim Jackson / Economist
Affluence
Betrayed
Consumerism
Iron
Locks
Novelty
Relentless
Social
Cage
Itself
Search
Status
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[We are] persuaded to spend money we don't have on things we don't need to create impressions that won't last on people we don't care about.
Tim Jackson / Economist
Inspiration
Motivation
People
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The idea of a non-growing economy may be an anathema to an economist. But the idea of a continually growing economy is an anathema to an ecologist.
Tim Jackson / Economist
Anathema
Economist
Continually
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The history of jazz for the last 45 years has come through the Monterey Jazz Festival stages. I think there's developed a legacy and an aura around the festival.
Tim Jackson / Economist
Legacy
Thinking
Years
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Novelty is adaptive when things are changing and you need to adapt yourself. Tradition is essential to lay down the stability to raise families and form cohesive social groups.
Tim Jackson / Economist
Groups
Novelty
Stability
Adapt
Cohesive
Essential
Lay
Raise
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Big companies are reliant on institutional investors on a punishing schedule which leads to ruthless behaviour. This form of capitalism with this structure and incentives will never deliver sustainability.
Tim Jackson / Economist
Behaviour
Big Companies
Capitalism
Form
Incentives
Investors
Ruthless
Structure
Sustainability
Companies
Deliver
Institutional
Leads
Punishing
Schedule
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It is the accuracy and detail inherent in crafted goods that endows them with lasting value. It is the time and attention paid by the carpenter, the seamstress and the tailor that makes this detail possible.
Tim Jackson / Economist
Accuracy
Attention
Carpenter
Goods
Inherent
Lasting
Paid
Them
Possible
Crafted
Detail
Makes
Tailor
Value
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Firms produce goods for households - that's us - and provide us with incomes, and that's even better, because we can spend those incomes on more goods and services. That's called the circular flow of the economy.
Tim Jackson / Economist
Economy
Flow
Goods
Produce
Circular
Households
Incomes
Provide
Services
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Prosperity consists in our ability to flourish as human beings - within the ecological limits of a finite planet. The challenge for our society is to create the conditions under which this is possible. It is the most urgent task of our times.
Tim Jackson / Economist
Challenges
Limits
Our Society
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In short, avoiding the scourge of unemployment may have less to do with chasing after growth and more to do with building an economy of care, craft and culture. And in doing so, restoring the value of decent work to its rightful place at the heart of society.
Tim Jackson / Economist
Avoiding
Chasing
Decent
Restoring
Scourge
Unemployment
Craft
Rightful
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There is a real fear around shifting from our existing economic system because people believe it gives us social organisation, a sense of freedom, and the ability to be nice to each other. Growth is seen as a social lubricant that allows us to be socially responsible.
Tim Jackson / Economist
Organisation
Be Nice
Economic System
Existing
Socially
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On the mathematical side, you could in principle build a society in which people were fulfilling their needs and flourishing as human beings in a higher way than in a consumer society, provided you had the right investments in the opportunity to flourish in less materialistic ways.
Tim Jackson / Economist
Fulfilling
Materialistic
Consumer
Flourish
Principle
Provided
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The philosophical point is that our happiness and wellbeing is not based on incomes rising. This is not just the wisdom of sages but of ordinary people. Prosperity is more social and psychological: it's about identification, affiliation, participation in society and a sense of purpose.
Tim Jackson / Economist
Affiliation
Identification
Ordinary
Ordinary People
Participation
Philosophical
Psychological
Rising
Wellbeing
Incomes
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The care and concern of one human being for another is a peculiar 'commodity.' It can't be stockpiled. It becomes degraded through trade. It isn't delivered by machines. Its quality rests entirely on the attention paid by one person to another. Even to speak of reducing the time involved is to misunderstand its value.
Tim Jackson / Economist
Commodity
Concern
Machines
Peculiar
Reducing
Degraded
Entirely
Misunderstand
Rests
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Productivity-the amount of output delivered per hour of work in the economy-is often viewed as the engine of progress in modern capitalist economies. Output is everything. Time is money. The quest for increased productivity occupies reams of academic literature and haunts the waking hours of C.E.O.s and finance ministers.
Tim Jackson / Economist
Capitalist Economy
Literature
Progress
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Productivity - the amount of output delivered per hour of work in the economy - is often viewed as the engine of progress in modern capitalist economies. Output is everything. Time is money. The quest for increased productivity occupies reams of academic literature and haunts the waking hours of C.E.O.s and finance ministers.
Tim Jackson / Economist
Finance
Academic
Capitalist
Ministers
Output
Productivity
Time Is Money
Waking
Time Work Money
Delivered
Economies
Engine
Work Time Money
Haunts
Per
Increased
Occupies
Quest
Viewed
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We have stood up and said continuing growth in the Western world is unjust, inappropriate and potentially destabilising. Having said that, we understand why governments do it, so there is an onus on us to show there are other stories and to identify the institutional innovations you might need in order to arrive at this other place.
Tim Jackson / Economist
Continuing
Growth
Inappropriate
Might
Order
Said
Unjust
Western
Western World
Arrive
Show
Governments
Identify
Innovations
Institutional
Potentially
Stood
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The default assumption is that - financial crises aside - growth will continue indefinitely. Not just for the poorest countries, where a better quality of life is undeniably needed, but even for the richest nations where the cornucopia of material wealth adds little to happiness and is beginning to threaten the foundations of our wellbeing.
Tim Jackson / Economist
Quality
Country
Growth
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If we are going to be able to create a new economic vision, companies will need to rethink every aspect of their operations; their bottom lines, ownership structures, demands on financial returns, how they raise capital. For example, an ethical company would say it should only take a fair share of the planet's resources and campaign on this.
Tim Jackson / Economist
Aspect
Bottom
Economic
Ethical
Example
Fair Share
Financial
Lines
Operations
Ownership
Resources
Share
Vision
Campaign
Capital
Companies
Create
Fair
For Example
Planet
Raise
Rethink
Returns
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Today we find ourselves faced with the imminent end of the era of cheap oil, the prospect (beyond the recent bubble) of steadily rising commodity prices, the degradation of forests, lakes and soils, conflicts over land use, water quality, fishing rights and the momentous challenge of stabilising concentrations of carbon in the global atmosphere.
Tim Jackson / Economist
Commodity Prices
Fishing
Rights
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