This week, Economics for Rebels host Alexandra Köves discusses the care economy with author Tim Jackson.
What if we accepted that human prosperity was about health rather than wealth? What if instead of growth, the economy would concern itself with care? In his new book Tim Jackson argues that our careless economy is jeopardising our physical and mental health as well as the natural environment and the wellbeing of other species. The organising principle of the economy should therefore be centred on care. But what is care? And how can our growth-fetishist patriarchal societies shift towards embracing a holistic understanding of care?