Small Is Beautiful: A Study of Economics as If People Mattered

Small Is Beautiful: A Study of Economics as If People Mattered

Schumacher, E. F. Schumacher
$17.78
Publication Date: October 27th, 1993
Publisher:
Vintage Books
ISBN:
9780099225614
Pages:
288

Description

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

About the Author

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. Born in Germany, he first came to England in 1930 as a Rhodes Scholar to study economics at New College, Oxford. In later years, his advice on problems of rural development was sought by many overseas governments.