CUSP May 28, 2024
A decade of health and social care privatisation in England: What was it meant to achieve?—This new paper by Anders Bach-Mortensen, Ben Goodair and Christine Corlet Walker analyses key public policy and regulatory documents related to outsourcing policies in England and compares them to peer-reviewed studies on their impact within the NHS, adult social care, and children's social care. → https://cusp.ac.uk/themes/health/paper-health-care-privatisation-en
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A decade of outsourcing in health and social care in England: What was it meant to achieve? | Journal Paper

The increased private provision of publicly funded health and social care in the UK is a highly contentious topic, with policies promoting outsourcing to re ...

Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity
Max KochOct 25, 2023
What would #work and #SocialSecurity look like in #degrowth / #postgrowth contexts and if #sustainablewelfare principles were applied? We discuss some of the literature and present results from deliberative #citizen forums on needs satisfaction in #Sweden: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/13882627231204989
CUSP Oct 4, 2023

Rethinking Prosperity: business and welfare in a postgrowth economy | Workshop, Lund University, 🗓️20 Oct 2023 → https://cusp.ac.uk/themes/p/postgrowth-lund-workshop/

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Rethinking Prosperity: business and welfare in a postgrowth economy | Workshop, Lund, 20 Oct 2023

Bringing together practitioners and academics, this workshop aim to co-create an improved understanding of the role of post growth and degrowth for business ...

Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity
CUSP May 30, 2023

"#Degrowth starts to move in from Europe’s policy fringes—Unorthodox economic ideas are finding a mainstream audience as #ClimateChange bites." Financial Times on the EU #BeyondGrowth conference. → https://www.ft.com/content/e2f96618-081f-41de-b7a0-a682017c8d11

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‘Degrowth’ starts to move in from Europe’s policy fringes

Unorthodox economic ideas are finding a mainstream audience as climate change bites

Financial Times
CUSP May 12, 2023

Evidencing the outsourcing of social care provision in England—CUSP researcher Christine Corlet Walker partnering in new database development project, set out to enable broad and in-depth investigation of the impact that delegating #SocialCare to the private sector has on people, wellbeing and society. The dataset will provide an empirical foundation to inform key policy debates on the future provision of social care and further research. → https://cusp.ac.uk/themes/aetw/care-dataset-project

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CUSP Apr 5, 2023

Pathways towards #SustainableProsperity in the EU—Second #PostGrowth Conference at the European Parliament, Bruxelles 🗓️15-17 May 2023 → https://cusp.ac.uk/themes/aetw/beyondgrowth2023/

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CUSP Jan 23, 2023
"Shouldn’t there be some return to #society from the creation of #wealth? Given that a lot of the wealth is actually built on public money?"—@ProfTimJackson on BBC World Service Weekend last Sunday with Paul Henley, Lijia Zhang, and Phil White. ⁠
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BBC World Service - Weekend, Peru protests: Machu Picchu closed indefinitely and tourists stranded

Violent protests have seen dozens of people killed

BBC
CUSP Jan 16, 2023

"Without health there is no wealth. Without care there is no health. Care is investment. It’s not a luxury consumer item. It’s the most fundamental investment of all."—@ProfTimJackson for The Guardian → https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jan/16/invest-britain-economy-spend-nhs

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Without health there is no wealth. Why do so few governments understand this?

Politicians are wrong to believe that we can only afford decent care in good economic times, says Tim Jackson of the University of Surrey

The Guardian
CUSP Dec 12, 2022

Degrowth can work—Here's how science can help | New #Nature comments piece by Jason Hickel, Giorgos Kallis, @ProfTimJackson, Dan O’Neill, Juliet Schor, @jks, Peter Victor and Diana Ürge-Vorsatz →
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-04412-x

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Degrowth can work — here’s how science can help

Wealthy countries can create prosperity while using less materials and energy if they abandon economic growth as an objective.