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Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered (Harper Perennial Modern Thought)
E.F. Schumacher • 5 highlights
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E. F. Schumacher’s Small Is Beautiful
John Michael Talbot • The Lessons of Saint Francis: How to Bring Simplicity and Spirituality into Your Daily Life
Small is Beautiful Revisited… 50 Years Later A STUDY GUIDE By David Boyle
Explores E.F. Schumacher's economic philosophies from "Small is Beautiful," emphasizing ecological sustainability, human values, and critiques of conventional growth metrics, while suggesting a spiritual approach to economics.
centerforneweconomics.orgDeep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future
Bill McKibben • 3 highlights
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The prime exponent of Buddhist economics, E. F. Schumacher, was a colleague of John Maynard Keynes who, after long reflection on the theories that he once practiced, wrote a popular exposition of a more sustainable economics in Small Is Beautiful.
Raj Patel • The Value of Nothing: How to Reshape Market Society and Redefine Democracy
From the point of view of Buddhist economics, therefore, production from local resources for local needs is the most rational way of economic life, while dependence on imports from afar and the consequent need to produce for export to unknown and distant peoples is highly uneconomic and justifiable only in exceptional cases and on a small scale.
E.F. Schumacher • Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered (Harper Perennial Modern Thought)
Bill Bernbach’s letter of resignation from Grey in 1947, warning about the hidden costs of scale is the best thing I've read this year https://t.co/QNGwf1qF5h
The design presented in the rest of the book rests on three pillars. First, reduce waste and increase efficiency. It's possible to live with the same benefits as the rest of society for one quarter of what the average consumer spends. Many of these