The Care Economy with Tim Jackson
Catch up with the recording of Professor Tim Jackson in conversation with Sarah Ivory at the EICC
The David Hume Institute, in partnership with EICC Live, were delighted to host Professor Tim Jackson in conversation with Dr Sarah Birrell Ivory, discussing The Care Economy.
Tim discussed his new book The Care Economy which asks how we arrived at a place where our economy is so disfunctional. Why does the economy not value the things that help prosperity and if we valued care differently how might this change what is prioritised?
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? All this and more in another fascinating DHI event.
About the 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. Tim has been at the forefront of international debates on sustainability for three decades and has worked closely with the UK Government, the United Nations, the European Commission, numerous NGOs, private companies and foundations to bring economic and social science research into sustainability.
In 2016, Tim was awarded the Hillary Laureate for exceptional international leadership in sustainability.
Tim is a Fellow of the Royal Society for the Arts, the Academy of Social Sciences and the Belgian Royal Academy of Science. In addition to his academic work, he is an award-winning dramatist with numerous radio-writing credits for the BBC.
His latest book The Care Economy was published in February 2025.
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.
Sarah was an Associate Professor in Climate Change and Business Strategy at the University of Edinburgh Business School (UEBS), a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA), and a Chartered Management and Business Educator (CMBE). She has held positions including Director of the Business School's Centre for Business, Climate Change and Sustainability, Chair of the British Academy of Management Sustainable and Responsible Business Special Interest Group (SIG), visiting Professor at Melbourne Business School, and elected non-professorial position on the University of Edinburgh Senatus Academicus.
Sarah currently describes herself as a recovering academic and is focused on writing fiction.
The Great Risk Transfer: have we got the balance right?
Catch up with this event about our latest research The Great Risk Transfer: have we got the balance right? published in partnership with the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries.
Past event: 3rd October 2022
This David Hume Institute event heard findings from our latest research The Great Risk Transfer: have we got the balance right? published in partnership with the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries.
The research explores what Scotland’s people feel about the shift in the balance of risk from institutions, such as employers and the State, to individuals. From managing pensions to insurance and housing. The discussion provided a chance to reflect on the research and discuss who is benefiting from the new levels of choice in managing the risks in their lives?
Lead researcher, Shelagh Young presented the findings and was joined for reflections by John Taylor, past president of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries and Mubin Haq, Chief Executive of the abrdn Financial Fairness Trust.
Click to view Shelagh’s slides separately from the event recording.