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
1
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