Event

The care economy with Professor Tim Jackson

This event hosted by UK think tank the David Hume Institute discusses Professor Tim Jackson’s book ‘The Care Economy’.

The David Hume Institute, in partnership with EICC Live, are delighted to host Professor Tim Jackson in conversation with Dr Sarah Birrell Ivory, discussing The Care Economy.

Care is the foundation of organic life. But its fate in the economy is precarious and uncertain. The labour of care is arduous and underpaid. Yet without it health and vitality are impossible. Care itself ends up leading a curious dual life. In our hearts it’s honoured as an irreducible good. But in the market it’s treated as a second class citizen – barely recognised in the relentless rush for productivity and wealth.

How did we arrive in this dysfunctional place? And what can we do to change things? What would it mean to take health seriously as a societal goal? What would it take to adopt care as an organising principle in the economy?

Tim will share insights from his new book, The Care Economy, which tackles these questions. His journey travels through the history of medicine, the economics of capitalism and the philosophical underpinnings of health. He unpacks the gender politics of care, revisits the birthplace of a universal dream and confronts the demons that prevent us from realising it.

Irreverent, insightful and profoundly inquisitive, The Care Economy offers a bold and accessible manifesto for a healthier and more humane society.

Speakers

Professor Tim Jackson is an ecological economist and writer. Since 2016 he has been Director of the Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity (CUSP), a multi-displinary research centre funded by the ESRC.

Dr Sarah Birrell Ivory is an experienced academic, an award-winning lecturer, an Oxford University Press author, a passionate executive educator, and a regular commentator and keynote speaker.