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Economy of Sufficiency
Tim Jackson contributes to new publication of the Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy
With his think piece 
Angst essen Seele auf — Escaping the ‘iron cage’ of consumerism, Tim Jackson adds to an eclectic set of essays by co-contributing authors such as Vandana Shiva, Ashok Khosla and Richard B. Norgaard.
Angst essen Seele auf — Escaping the ‘iron cage’ of consumerism, Tim Jackson adds to an eclectic set of essays by co-contributing authors such as Vandana Shiva, Ashok Khosla and Richard B. Norgaard.Published in honour of Wolfgand Sachs, and drawing on a symposium held in May 2012, Wuppertal Spezial 48 takes the reader through various discourses of sustainable development and illustrates the evolution of ideas around the sufficiency economy:
Wuppertal Spezial 48 takes the reader through various discourses of sustainable development and illustrates the evolution of ideas around the sufficiency economy:1 Wealth in diversity
Ashok Khosla: Beyond Rio: from green economy to green society
Marianne Gronemeyer: Über das Aufhören – Entwicklung ohne Wachstum
Vandana Shiva: Seeds of Soil – Towards a living economy
2 Enjoyable limits
Richard B. Norgaard: Escaping Economism, Escaping the Econocene
Tim Jackson: “Angst essen Seele auf” – Escaping the ‘iron cage’ of consumerism
3 Creating commons
Ezio Manzini: Resilient systems and cosmopolitan localism – The emerging scenario of the small, local, open and connected space
Silke Helfrich: Commons fallen nicht vom Himmel – Fünf Commons-Thesen
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