Small is Beautiful

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  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)

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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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• English Books
• Paperback 272 Pages
• Edition: New Ed
• ISBN-10: 0099225611
• ISBN-13: 9780099225614
• Publisher: Vintage
• Pub date: Jan 01, 1993
• Dimensions: 1290 mm x 839 mm x 129 mm Just how big is that?
• Also available as: Hardcover, Others and eBook

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