Dear Friends and Colleagues
Welcome to the April edition of our CUSP Newsletter.
At the heart of our mission is a belief in the need for both research and dialogue to underpin the transition to a sustainable prosperity. This month’s newsletter brings you plenty of both.
On the research side, Anastasia Loukianov’s paper on the role played by aesthetics in our visions of the good life, Amy Isham’s continuing exploration of flow experiences and Joost de Moor’s analysis of temporality in climate activism underline the depth and breadth of our social science research.
Meanwhile our pioneering team of ecological macroeconomists brings you brand new papers delving into the challenge of Baumol's cost disease in a postgrowth economy, the impact of a postgrowth transition on the North-South-Divide and a new book exploring how we might be able to Escape from Overshoot—by CUSP Co-Investigator Peter Victor.
You will also find details of two new research projects and a couple of timely blogs, one by Bronwyn Hayward—reflecting on the outcomes of the recent IPCC AR6 summary report—and another by Steven Smith on how climate change policy is getting tangled up in the distinction between ecological necessity and political viability.
On the engagement side, for those who missed the event itself, a video recording of our latest Nature of Prosperity Dialogue on Food Justice on a Finite Planet is now available online. A fascinating discussion on Art and Wellbeing for the Irish chapter of the Wellbeing Economy Alliance is also worth a listen. And our CUSP seminar series continues across our partner institutions and includes events with Robin Hahnel (at Goldsmiths) and Theresa Harrer (at Middlesex).
The rising medium of the podcast continues to provide a way of reaching a wide and varied audience for our work. This month we feature a contribution to the excellent Economics for Rebels series hosted by the European Society for Ecological Economics and a wide-ranging discussion of post growth on David Bent’s Powerful Times.
Don’t forget too, that we will be participating in next month’s ground-breaking Beyond Growth conference in the European Parliament.
Finally, I’m grateful to the eagle-eyed person who spotted a copy of my Post Growth—life after capitalism at the top of the Irish President’s pile of reading, when he just happened to be meeting with Joe Biden. I’m not sure it was top of their agenda. But hey. Who knows? One day it will be.
Thank you as ever for your feedback and comments. We always enjoy hearing from our readers.
Best wishes,
Tim
Professor Tim Jackson,.
CUSP Director
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