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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
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
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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Wisdom demands a new orientation of science and technology toward the organic, the gentle, the elegant and beautiful.
― E.F. Schumacher, Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius — and a lot of courage — to move in the opposite direction.