Small Is Beautiful
The classic of common-sense economics. "Enormously broad in scope, pithily weaving together threads from Galbraith and Gandhi, capitalism and Buddhism, science and psychology."-- The New Republic
The classic of common-sense economics. "Enormously broad in scope, pithily weaving together threads from Galbraith and Gandhi, capitalism and Buddhism, science and psychology."-- The New Republic
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780061317781 (0061317780)
Publisher: HarperCollins
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Science,
Environment,
Business,
Economics,
Politics,
Philosophy,
Sociology,
Sustainability,
Social Movements,
Social Justice
This book was thoroughly frustrating. I originally thought it was a newly published book. No it was published in 1973. The studies it references were made anywhere from the 50s through the 60s. Those studies pretty much predict a number of the problems we're having now. Resources depletion, env...
“A Study of Economics as if People Mattered” is the tagline for Small is Beautiful but don’t think this is a boring book on supply and demand. Schumacher doesn’t focus on economics as we traditionally think of the subject, but rather, on how we think about economics, business, and what is right. He ...
The last great finical debacle, the one in 2007, is still affecting people the world over, but the affect is still heavy in American. I was personally affected, my wife and I both lost jobs. We have yet to recover from that. There was a snow storm a few weeks back. It occurred when the Polar Vortex ...
Schumacher discourses on economics, through the prism of an ethics of care and respect for human dignity. Although some ideas are dated and the Christian grounding gives his metaphysical comments a flavour that can't help but put me off, this book contains several insights and ideas which merit inte...
5 years ago
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