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Confronting Extractivism // CUSP co-director Tim Jackson has contributed to a new report from Ernst & Young’s New Economy Unit (NEU), exploring how businesses can help drive the transition away from towards a regenerative economy.

🔗 https://cusp.ac.uk/themes/aetw/ey-neu-extractivism-report2026/

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Community-rooted social enterprises are transforming local food systems by combining trading with social impact and reaching underserved communities. They should be recognised as essential food-system partners. New policy briefing from the SEFS project.

🔗 https://cusp.ac.uk/themes/p/sefs-policy-briefing/

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The role of social enterprise in transforming the UK Food System | Policy Paper New briefing by CUSP researchers summarises evidence from the SEFS project on how social enterprises are contributing to healthier, fairer and more sustaina ...

Workshop: The Care Economy: reimagining health and care
🗓️ Online 23 June 2026, 12pm (BST)⁠
⁠🔗 https://cusp.ac.uk/themes/health/tj-event-q-nhs-alliance-2026/

CUSP co-director Tim Jackson joins Jennifer Morgan from Q-Community at an The NHS Alliance event to explore the value of care, its place in economic thinking, and how a more human‑centred approach to prosperity and health can help reimagine our future.⁠
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🌍 The latest CUSP Newsletter is live now. // Co-director Tim Jackson reflects on the turmoil of the first half of 2026—aggressive expansionism, rising militarism, and justice systems that punish protest while shielding atrocities—arguing that what's done in the name of growth, law, and defence is the very opposite of prosperity, justice, and security.
🆕 Plus new research and activities from across the CUSP community.
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bread-and-circuses-cusp-newsletter-june-2026 When civic virtue goes missing, said the Roman poet Juvenal, political engagement gives way to ‘bread and circuses’. Governments resort to materialism and entertainment to distract the populace from rampant injustice.

What Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations can teach us about today’s failed energy transitions—Blog by Simon Mair
→ https://cusp.ac.uk/themes/aetw/blopg-sm-energy-use-wealth-of-nations/

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An unregulated post-growth transition in the North can cause crises in the South: debt, inflation, unemployment. That’s the finding of a new paper by CUSP researchers Dario Leoni, Andrew Jackson and Tim Jackson. Their scenario dynamics analysis from the PADME model reveal that financial transfers and global cooperation are essential to make it work internationally—ecological space isn’t enough. →

https://cusp.ac.uk/themes/aetw/paper-dl-postgrowth-north-south-divide/

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The cost of data centres—New FoE Ireland report by CUSP fellow
Seán Fearon models how the growing data centre demand on the Irish electricity grid is pushing up electricity prices for households across the state.
→ https://cusp.ac.uk/themes/aetw/report-sf-cost-of-data-centres

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Is modern economics built on a lie?—In a guest post for CUSP, Paul Bain describes new evidence that questions whether people truly have insatiable wants—and argues that economists' reactions to that evidence lay bare the field's deep ideological roots. → https://cusp.ac.uk/themes/s1/pb-blog-is-modern-economics-built-on-a-lie/ cc

Is modern economics built on a lie? | Guest blog by Paul Bain In a guest post for CUSP, Paul Bain describes new evidence that questions whether people truly have insatiable wants—and argues that economists' reacti ...

Sufficiency and care: a conversation between Tim Jackson, Halliki Kreinin, PhD and Jonas Ludwig about organising principles for sustainability research and action in times of geopolitical crises.

→ https://cusp.ac.uk/themes/health/tj-article-sufficiency-and-care/

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Late capitalism's dangerous endgame has a body count.
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The mantra of growth is failing us. Not because we haven't tried hard enough. But because it's built on broken promises.⁠
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In his blog for , CUSP co-director points to another economics that views prosperity as health + economy as care.

⭕ Full article → https://iai.tv/articles/our-economic-system-is-designed-to-make-us-unhappy-auid-3543?_auid=2020

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Our economic system is designed to make us unhappy » IAI TV Growth-at-all-costs capitalism runs on disappointment