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Small Is Beautiful

Economics As If People Mattered

By E.F. Schumacher

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| Hardcover | 9780809591152

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Small is Beautiful is the perfect antidote to the economics of globalization. As relevant today as when it was first published, this is a landmark set of essays on humanistic economics. This 25th anniversary edition brings Schumacher's ideas into focus for the end-of-the-century by adding commeContinue

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Book cover: Small is Beautiful

Small is Beautiful: Economics As If People Mattered, by EF Schumacher, Harper & Row, 1975, cover by Randall Richmond After many years in the wilderness, this paean to humanity by a dedicated socialist economist has been revived by the most unlikely g ... (read full critics)

ft published on Mon, 16 May 2011

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Economics As if People Mattered

I read this book in my late teens and it had a great influence on me. But I now think that most of its ideas, while well-meaning, have not helped solve poverty in the third world. Countries like Malaysia have not adopted downgraded versions of Western technology, but have sought out the latest techn ... (continue)

I read this book in my late teens and it had a great influence on me. But I now think that most of its ideas, while well-meaning, have not helped solve poverty in the third world. Countries like Malaysia have not adopted downgraded versions of Western technology, but have sought out the latest technologies. Same with the other Tigers and Dragons of Asia that were successful models of development in the last century. India and China will do best if they can leapfrog the West.

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