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Small is Beautiful: A Study of Economics as if People Mattered Book

A controversial study, first published in 1973, of the economic structure of the western world. Schumacher maintains that man's current pursuit of profit and progress has resulted in gross economic inefficiency, environmental pollution and inhumane working conditions.Read More

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    Small is Beautiful is E.F Schumacher's stimulating and controversial study of world economics. This remarkable book is relevant today and its many themes as pertinent and thought-provoking as when it was first published twenty years ago. Small is Beautiful looks at the economic structure of the Western world in a revolutionary way. Schumacher maintains that Man's current pursuit of profit and progress which promotes giant organisations and increased specialization has in fact resulted in gross economic inefficiency environmental pollution and inhumane working conditions. Schumacher challenges the doctrine of economic technological and scientific specialization and proposes a system of Intermediate Technology based on smaller working units communal ownership and regional workplaces utilizing local labour and resources.

  • Foyles

    How does our economic system impact the way we live? Does it really affect what we truly care about? 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. ‘One of the 100 most influential books published since World War II’ The Times Literary Supplement

  • BookDepository

    Small Is Beautiful : Paperback : Vintage Publishing : 9780099225614 : 0099225611 : 27 Oct 1993 : How does our economic system impact the way we live? 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.

  • ASDA

    A controversial study first published in 1973 of the economic structure of the western world. Schumacher maintains that man's current pursuit of profit and progress has resulted in gross economic inefficiency environmental pollution and inhumane working conditions.

  • Blackwell

    A study of economics and its purpose. It examines our modern economic system - its use of resources and impact on how we live - questioning whether they reflect what we truly care about. Small is Beautiful is E. F. Schumacher's stimulating and...

  • 0099225611
  • 9780099225614
  • E.F. Schumacher
  • 16 September 1993
  • Vintage
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 272
  • New edition
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