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.…

- Tim Jackson

For at the end of the day, prosperity goes beyond material pleasures.

- Tim Jackson

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 t…

- Tim Jackson

Every society clings to a myth by which it lives. Ours is the myth of economic growth...

- Tim Jackson

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…

- Tim Jackson

[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

The default assumption is that - financial crises aside - growth will continue indefinitely. Not just for the poorest countries, where a better quali…

- Tim Jackson

If pornographers are among the early adopters of the new technology, then it has definite commercial possibilities.

- Tim Jackson

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 pri…

- Tim Jackson