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Small is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered

By E.F. Schumacher

Book information

Publisher
Harper & Row
Year
1975
ISBN
0060803525, 9780060803520
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
23 MB (24280955 bytes)
Series
Perenial Library
Pages
305\314
DPI
300
Orientation
portrait
Paginated
yes
Scanned
yes
Time added
2017-02-17 01:34:43
Macroeconomics;Economics;Business & Money;Microeco

Description

Small is Beautiful is E. F. Schumacher's stimulating and controversial study of world economies. This remarkable book is as relevant today and its themes as pertinent and thought-provoking as when it was first published thirty years ago.Small is Beautiful looks at the economic structure of the Western world in a revolutionary way. Schumacher maintains that Man's current pursuit of profit and progress, which promotes giant organisations and increased specialisation, has in fact resulted in gross economic inefficiency, environmental pollution and inhumane working conditions. Schumacher challenges the doctrine of economic, technological and scientific specialisation and proposes a system of Intermediate Technology, based on smaller working units, communal ownership and regional workplaces utilising local labour and resources.

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