Small is Beautiful
Author(s): Ernst Friedrich Schumacher
Small is Beautiful is E. F. Schumacher's stimulating and controversial study of world economies. This remarkable book is as relevant today and its themes as pertinent and thought-provoking as when it was first published thirty years ago.
Small is Beautiful looks at the economic structure of the Western world in a revolutionary way. Schumacher maintains that Man's current pursuit of profit and progress, which promotes giant organisations and increased specialisation, has in fact resulted in gross economic inefficiency, environmental pollution and inhumane working conditions. Schumacher challenges the doctrine of economic, technological and scientific specialisation and proposes a system of Intermediate
Technology, based on smaller working units, communal ownership and regional workplaces utilising local labour and resources.
Product Information
A remarkable classic study of world economies, reissued to celebrate the centenary of E F Schumachers birth.
"A book of heart and hope and downright common sense about the future." --Peter Lewis, "Daily Mail"
General Fields
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- : Penguin Random House
- : Penguin Books Ltd
- : 0.208
- : 01 December 1992
- : 198mm X 129mm X 18mm
- : United Kingdom
- : 01 September 2011
- : books
Special Fields
- : 259
- : New edition
- : Paperback
- : Ernst Friedrich Schumacher