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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
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.
E.F. Schumacher • Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered (Harper Perennial Modern Thought)
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.
E. F. SCHUMACHER
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)
An arresting plea for ‘small is beautiful’ in an economy increasingly oriented around breakneck growth, financialization, increasing monopolies, and industry consolidation.
workfutures • Always and Forever
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