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  • Post Growth

  • Life After Capitalism
  • By: Tim Jackson
  • Narrated by: Tim Jackson
  • Length: 8 hrs and 19 mins
  • 3.0 out of 5 stars (2 ratings)

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Winner of the 2022 Eric Zencey Prize in Ecological Economics

Capitalism is broken. The relentless pursuit of more has delivered climate catastrophe, social inequality and financial instability – and left us ill-prepared for life in a global pandemic. Tim Jackson’s passionate and provocative book dares us to imagine a world beyond capitalism – a place where relationship and meaning take precedence over profits and power.

Post Growth is both a manifesto for system change and an invitation to rekindle a deeper conversation about the nature of the human condition.

©2021 Tim Jackson (P)2023 Tim Jackson
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interweaves various stories of capitalism’s highly destructive and counter-intuitive tendencies

this book is NOT an empirical analysis of degrowth. If you want facts and figures, I recommend reading Jackson’s previous book, “Prosperity without growth.”

This is not your usual scientific how-to manual, in which the author purports to have figured out the answer to everything. I feel this is the point: Jackson invites the reader to follow his thought process of imagining what a post growth society might look like.

The book is framed as a series of story-like explorations, each revolving around a number of historical figures or anecdotes. Sometimes he meanders, and it takes him a while to get to the point, but when he does, it‘s usually quite moving.

In the prologue, he comes off a little bit grumpy; skipping the grumpy parts won’t diminish the experience that much, as far as I can tell.

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Poorly formulated straw man argument

Mr. Jackson raises a few interesting points, but they are lost amid the cherry picking, dependent variable sampling and whining. I suggest Good Economics for Hard Times instead. By contrast, that book offers actual evidence, honest studies and is a more pleasant reading experience.

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