Book Review: Prosperity Without Growth

Jordan MacLeod

Kosmos Journal | Spring/Summer 2010

Tim Jackson has spent the past six years as Economics Commissioner for the Sustainable Development Commission (SDC), the UK government’s independent advisor on sustainable development. In his latest book, Jackson builds on his 2009 SDC report, Prosperity Without Growth? The Transition to a Sustainable Economy, with a thorough and highly readable account of the central problems and paradoxes of a global economy oblivious to the ecological limits of a finite planet. Read more »