Empowering and elegiac --Yanis Varoufakis author of Another Now Our prevailing vision of
social progress is fatally dependent on a false promise: that there will always be more and
more for everyone. Forged in the crucible of capitalism this foundational myth has come
dangerously unravelled. The relentless pursuit of eternal growth has delivered ecological
destruction financial fragility social instability and the biggest global health crisis in a
century. What should we do when our myths desert us? How are we to adjust to a new economic
normal? What does life after capitalism look like? Weaving together philosophical reflection
economic insight and social vision Tim Jackson's provocative thesis is that a post growth
society is a richer not a poorer one. Material progress has changed our lives - in many ways
for the better. But the luxury of having can too easily obscure the happiness of belonging the
satisfaction of achieving and the simple lightness of being. A genuine prosperity demands a
deeper respect for relationship and meaning than capitalism allows. Jackson's far-reaching
essay is both a manifesto for system change and an invitation to rekindle a deeper conversation
about the nature of the human condition.
