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Small Is Beautiful

Economics as if People Mattered (Harper Perennial Modern Thought)

E. F. Schumacher

Discover an eco-bible for the modern world with a timely reissue of a groundbreaking sustainability statement. Small Is Beautiful challenges conventional economic wisdom and offers a landmark critique of industrialism's "bigger is better" mentality. This influential work has paved the way for contemporary books on environmentalism and economics, and offers a crucial message for our world balancing economic growth with the human costs of globalization.
Publish Date
1989-09-27T00:00:00.000Z
1989-09-27T00:00:00.000Z
first published in 1973
Goodreads Rating
4.1
ISBN
9780061997761
Recommendations
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Recommendations
2020-04-23T16:03:27.000Z
On World Book Day, I recommend five environmental classics: Rachel Carson, Silent Spring E. F. Schumacher, Small is Beautiful J. Martinez-Alier, The Environmentalism of the Poor Carolyn Merchant, The Death of Nature John McNeill, Something New Under the Sun      source