Product Description

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 commentaries by contemporary thinkers who have been influenced by Schumacher. They analyze the impact of his philosophy on current political and economic thought. Small is Beautiful is the classic of common-sense economics upon which many recent trends in our society are founded. This is economics from the heart rather than from just the bottom line.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #268820 in Books
• Published on: 2000-06-15
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 286 pages

Review
"Enormously broad in scope, pithily threads from Galbraith and Gandhi, capitalism and Buddhism, science and psychology." -- -- The New Republic

About the Author
E. F. SHUMACHER (1911-1977) was a Rhodes Scholar in economics and the head of planning at the British Coal Board. He was also the president of the Soil Association and the founder of the Intermediate Technology Development Group.

Customer Reviews

Buy this Inspirational book from your locally owned bookstore
Great book.....If you haven't read it and are considering a purchase, heed the wisdom in the title. Buy local, support small businesses. Amazon will do OK without you buying it from them. Otherwise, you could buy this book from Amazon to be "ironic".

I (Who Have Nothing)
Put in simple pop culture terms, the argument against Small, is: Imagine a steady rock & roll diet of nothing but local bands. No Berry, no Beatles, No Stones, no Dylan, etc., etc. Except we cannot even imagine that ~ local bands are always recasting, if not outright imitating, the latest sounds from all over the country.

Look, the Dark Ages were "green," too. Who hated industry and technology and science more than the Church? Even a 100 hundred years ago, before traffic jams, pollution, TV commercials and the Bomb, about 70% of this country was illiterate farm hands. With life expectancies of 50 years. But they had great banjo players.

great insights but the book could nave been better
This book offers some excellent insights but lacks something that all big picture political/economic books must have - humor. That weakness makes it a long, heavy slog that is nearly worth the time spent.