Small is Beautiful
A study of economics as if people mattered
Oxford economist E. F. Schumacher provides an enlightening study of our economic system and its purpose, challenging the current state of excessive consumption in our society. Offering a crucial message for the modern world struggling to balance economic growth with the human costs of globalisation, Small Is Beautiful puts forward the revolutionary yet viable case for building our economies around the needs of communities, not corporations.
Published: 2003
Pages: 288
eBook: 9781788532648
Paperback: 9780099225614
| Part 1 The Modern World | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Part 2 Resources | |||
| Part 3 The Third World | |||
| Part 4 Organisation and Ownership | |||
| Epilogue | |||
| Notes and Acknowledgements |
Before the publication of Small is Beautiful, his bestselling reappraisal of Western economic attitudes, Dr E. F. Schumacher was already well known as an economist, journalist and progressive entrepreneur. He was the Founder and Chairman of Practical Action (formerly ITDG)
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