Small Is Beautiful: A Study Of Economics As If People Mattered
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Book: Fair
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Yellowed
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What if the relentless pursuit of economic growth is not progress, but a path to ruin? In Small is Beautiful: A Study of Economics as if People Mattered, E.F. Schumacher presents a radical and urgent challenge to the orthodoxies of modern economics, arguing that Western industrial society's obsession with maximising production and profit has come at a catastrophic cost to human dignity, community, and the natural world. Drawing on a rich synthesis of Buddhist philosophy, ecological awareness, and practical economics, Schumacher makes a compelling case for human-scale technologies and decentralised, people-centred systems of production — a vision he famously distils into the concept of intermediate technology. Published in 1973 and almost instantly recognised as a landmark work of economic thought, Small is Beautiful remains one of the most influential and widely read critiques of industrial capitalism ever written. Schumacher's prose is lucid and authoritative, moving seamlessly between moral philosophy, political economy, and real-world policy, making complex arguments accessible without ever sacrificing intellectual rigour. Decades after its first publication, his warnings about resource depletion, environmental degradation, and the dehumanising effects of mass production feel not merely prescient but prophetic — leaving the reader to wonder whether humanity will heed the lesson before it is too late.
Author: E.F. Schumacher
Format: Paperback
Genre: Business & economics
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Yellowed
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
What if the relentless pursuit of economic growth is not progress, but a path to ruin? In Small is Beautiful: A Study of Economics as if People Mattered, E.F. Schumacher presents a radical and urgent challenge to the orthodoxies of modern economics, arguing that Western industrial society's obsession with maximising production and profit has come at a catastrophic cost to human dignity, community, and the natural world. Drawing on a rich synthesis of Buddhist philosophy, ecological awareness, and practical economics, Schumacher makes a compelling case for human-scale technologies and decentralised, people-centred systems of production — a vision he famously distils into the concept of intermediate technology. Published in 1973 and almost instantly recognised as a landmark work of economic thought, Small is Beautiful remains one of the most influential and widely read critiques of industrial capitalism ever written. Schumacher's prose is lucid and authoritative, moving seamlessly between moral philosophy, political economy, and real-world policy, making complex arguments accessible without ever sacrificing intellectual rigour. Decades after its first publication, his warnings about resource depletion, environmental degradation, and the dehumanising effects of mass production feel not merely prescient but prophetic — leaving the reader to wonder whether humanity will heed the lesson before it is too late.