More than one person decided last February that this summer they would spend it in the isolated and gloomy moors of Yorkshire, in northern England. Not to take refuge in a place with less stifling temperatures, but because they were stunned after seeing Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi act in those settings in the latest audiovisual adaptation of Wuthering Heights, directed by Emerald Fennell. The film unleashed Brontëmania and caused, on the one hand, the novel’s sales to soar by 504% in just two days, according to data provided by Amazon; and, on the other hand, hotels and tourist apartments in the area to notice a significant increase in occupancy.

All societies, explains British economist Tim Jackson (1957), cling to a myth by which they live. Ours is the myth of growth. Eternal growth that one day will solve all our problems. It is useful, he admits, when you have little. But in excess it begins to cause imbalances. “Human prosperity has to do above all with health,” he points out. And he believes that the myth of growth, driven by male economists who have focused on productivity, efficiency, and the invisible hand of the market, and who have left aside the “invisible heart of society,” the poorly paid work of women, has failed. Jackson, author of Post-Growth and emeritus at the University of Surrey, thinks it is time to change it. He publishes L’economia de la cura (Arcàdia), which will appear in Spanish at Paidós in October.