What Do You Mean by Care in the Care Economy?

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 physicaland 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 societiesshift towards embracing a holistic understanding of care?